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Vista Gets Official Release Dates
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on Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:06 AM
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from the this-weeks-dates dept.
SlinkySausage writes "Five years, three months and five days after Windows XP made its debut, Microsoft will usher its next-generation OS onto the stage. Microsoft has set November 30 as the release date for Vista (and Office 2007) to business customers and January 30, 2007 as the date for the official launch to consumers and The World At Large."
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really? (Score:1, Funny)
I've been running it for years! (Score:4, Funny)
J/K, I'm not gay.
All in all... (Score:1)
535? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.instascreed.com/)
dup? (Score:2)
(http://terminate.sourceforge.net/)
aka Corporate version (Score:1)
Re:aka Corporate version (Score:4, Informative)
Don't let them fool you--Vista is being released on January 30th, 2007.
Do we care? (Score:2)
Christmas Shopping! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://ninenine.com/)
Re:Christmas Shopping! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday January 21 2004, @08:36PM)
Switch to Linux? (Score:1, Troll)
Sucks to be a computer vendor (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Saturday February 25 2006, @11:02PM)
But: "buyers of Vista-ready Toshiba notebooks preloaded with XP Professional or XP Tablet Edition -- which is just about all of 'em -- will qualify for an upgrade to Vista Business for a meagre $27 'shipping and handling' cost. The uber-OS itself, over five years in the baking, is free."
And here's the best explanation I've found regarding how Corporate/Retail keys will work. Note that I didn't say the explanation was simple.
For Real This Time? (Score:2)
(http://inglorion.net/ | Last Journal: Thursday October 06 2005, @07:17AM)
Why is the delay such a big deal? (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.promanagerblog.com/)
As far as I can see, Windows XP, with patches, a firewall and Firefox seems to be working fine. I don't feel the need to upgrade as soon as Vista comes out.
They're late on the deadline they originally set for themselves. But I don't see anyone else losing any sleep over it.
Re:Why is the delay such a big deal? (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure, fancy new apps and UI's should be saved for new versions (like Vista), they have a business to run after all, but what about improvements to CPU scheduling or memory management?
Linux (2.6.18) performs *much* better under load than my XP x64 installation which is always swapping out when it doesn't need to (When *I* notice a performance hit when I have free RAM going to me that means the algorithm obviously isn't right for desktop use) and grinds to a massive halt under heavy CPU load. When I copy a large file from one disk to another in Windows I may as well just go make a brew because the XP shell itself becomes as slow as frozen tar. Linux remains interactive even under 100% cpu load or when moving large files around across disks.
Anyone who tells me that XP have made improvements in this area has to be joking. Sure they may have put in some tweaks here and there, but it's marginal if anything and not on par with other OS's in 2006.
IMHO Microsoft should release two versions of their "Service Pack"'s, one purely a security response roll-up *plus updates to improve to underlying architecture (kernel updates)* and the other a bundle of applications and UI/user experience enhancements like we're getting in Vista. People could pay for the latter. Then they should release these upgrades incrementally every year *on the dot* and do away with the stupid 5 year life cycle. Yes this is like Apple does it and it does it better better. As someone who's never used or bought a Mac in my life, I still think Microsoft need to take a page out of Apple's book and adopt some of their practices.
Vista will be the same old flawed release, it'll be glitchy until service pack 1 and Microsoft will never release anything other than essential security updates for it through Windows Update. The Ultimate Extras thing will be a joke because noone will use it after shelling out hundred's of dollars already.
All I'm saying is Microsoft need to wake the fuck up and realise people don't want to run Windows Update and see 60 obscure looking boring security updates and hundreds of meg to download. They want to see "Update: Improvements to the look and feel of IE7", "Update: Improvement to desktop responsiveness under load" and "Update: Improve ease of use of ripping music with WMP" and i'm sure if people saw these updates flow out of Redmond on a reliable basis they would be willing to pay for them on a yearly subscription basis if it was fairly priced.
Re:Why is the delay such a big deal? (Score:5, Insightful)
The logic is simple. Slashdotters, and a lot news/blog sites just become artificially "upset" at everything Microsoft does. So don't be surprised.
Vista delayed? OMG we're upset!
Vista release dates announced? OMG we're upset!
Microsoft patents something? OMG we're upset!
Microsoft opens the patent of something? OMG we're upset!
Basically never mind what Microsoft does, is quickly wrapped in conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios, and frequently the logic is so weak, that the whole thing reads better as light attempts at sarcasm.
Because it is a big deal, IMHO. (Score:5, Informative)
A better question would be why some people (excluding mac & linux users
Breaking news (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.ameyer17.com/)
Someone start a pool (Score:2, Funny)
Can't Wait for Apple (Score:3, Insightful)
So imagine MacWorld just before this January 30 Vista release. Jobs has already shown he's not too afraid to take a stab at Redmond. We all expect some surprise Leopard features that speak for themselves, but expect some intentional jabs as well. Maybe even a TV commercial campaign to steal thunder from the TV campaign Microsoft is sure to launch (because they always do).
Personally, I predict the real show-stopper will be a surprise price reduction from Apple. Seriously, if they knocked Leopard *down* to $99 or something, Microsoft would be looking really bad.
oh my (Score:3, Funny)
Changes (Score:1)
(http://armanox.no-ip.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday October 10, @12:25AM)
Just installed the technical refresh for Office 07 - beta 2 had more functionality by default
Guess Vista'll follow suite?
Did I miss an Apple/Linux article? (Score:2)
The Leopard/Ubuntu update must be coming along a lot faster than expected. I can't wait to delve into all those nifty features Vista has promised over the last few years! That kick ass WinFS addition will surely make my life easier.
indeed.
5 years, 3 months, 5 days... Yet still... (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.fiberoptica.net/)
...manage to beat Duke Nukem Forever.
According to this page [duke4.net], DNF has been in (in)active development for over 8 years...
University licenses (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://everyoneisasith.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday October 23 2004, @03:17AM)
Hardware... (Score:2)
(http://paperlined.org/)
I wonder (Score:1)
Driver availability is the real release date (Score:2)
I played around with Vista RC1 a bit last week on a spare machine. For the most part, I was actually pretty impressed with the ease of install. Inevitably there were a couple of devices (onboard audio and USB wireless) that it didn't support. However, it seems that the driver model has changed pretty significantly from XP/2000 as these didn't work at all.
So the release date isn't Nov 30, it's when your last hardware vendor releases their Vista drivers.
Phew! (Score:1)
My birthday is December 1st. If they were to wait one more day, my birthday would have been the day the world went to hell.
With my luck, something will go wrong and they will delay it one day.
Businesses get to be the beta testers? (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Monday January 29 2007, @06:49PM)
Got a Windows Problem? (Score:1)
Awww and I was hoping.... (Score:2)
I wish it never came out (Score:1)
The problem is that we just need to STOP buying their damn products. It is easy to say that than to actually do that but for god sakes we could have so much more in an OS. We could have really cool interactive menu systems, we could have media drivin enviroments and I am not talking about shitty ass GUIs I am talking about 3D enviroment desktops. Make things intuitive and faster. I know people want fast times when installing the OS but I would love to see options to not install or to install certain applications. The best thing any one can ever do in software development is make two versions of your software, one light and one full, then you put them into one piece of software. Being able to select which options you want to have on there and which options you don't is just better for everyone. Most the people who build their computers know enough about computers to have options to do shit in the OS. Dell, HP, Gateway, etc. all can have their own installation processes for prebought computers (they could have a drop down menu in the bootup disc for average users and users who want to customize installation). Yes I know linux has some of this stuff already. The problem is linux isn't that user friendly. I know I will probably get slammed for this but it truely isn't intuitive at all. I do admit over the years different distros have made it a lot easier to install but just dealing with hardware issues and drivers, etc. just a nightmare to deal with.
I just want more. I want people to think what you want the future to be like in 10-20 years. What sort of technology do you want? Think of all the cool ideas for a good os would be, think about optimizations in your companies computers, think about gaming and how interactive that is, now think about something like interactive menu systems and real time effects. In 20 years we will amazing technologyy, maybe more doors will open with light particles and we will be able to manipulate light in a way where we could have 3D holograms. The way I see it, is that Vista is just a blockade for all of that. It will only help out the big media corporations and hurt innovation and creativity. I say we hold off as long as we can with out installing vista. Make it as painful as we can for them. If any one is high up in a company, please do not upgrade your systems yet. Wait till crazy haxors begin the crack it open and figure out the system.
Make vista the new ME.
XGL & stuff (Score:1)
(http://users.utu.fi/tmwire | Last Journal: Thursday February 15 2007, @04:22PM)
Lackluster Sales Expected? (Score:1, Interesting)
And when the sales aren't there like they expected, will they attempt to blame piracy?
I'm not hearing too much from companies that they want to upgrade again after just adopting XP in the last couple of years.
Actually, it's a bit later... (Score:2)
Why the wait? (Score:1)
(http://www.domenicdenicola.com/)
Can someone please explain something to me? (Score:1)
Great! (Score:1)
the REAL reason for the split release (Score:2)
(http://vftp.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday December 09 2006, @09:52PM)
God forbid my business rely on windows, but if it did, you certainly wouldn't see me with a copy of vista before March.
Rushed out the door... (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://www.bytesandbeans.com/)
I think Apple is more organized when launching a new OS , Microsoft is jas noisy as any makle, loud and with bragging rights but has premature ejaculation problems.
It will take vista at least a year to be where its supposed to be after all the bug fixes it has to undergo.
When will it be usable? (Score:1)
(http://www.jccworld.com/)
I think I'll wait it out a little...
samba... a little offtopic (Score:1)
But does it fix the minor annoyances? (Score:2)
What about these problems:
There are more, but I just can't think of them right now.
I dont believe it... (Score:1)
Please answer my simple question... (Score:2)
(http://the-junkyard.net/)
I've been begging for an answer to my ever-so-simple question for months now. It's so trivial a thought that I'm amazed that i have yet to actually get a response, much less an answer:
Why buy Vista?
DirectX 10 is hardly a selling point, because, as a developer, I see very little that makes it special enough to consider as a target API, and with such a small audience (i.e., one solitary platform with the possibility of porting to XBox 360), I fail to see the point of even giving it a passing glance. Aero Glass is only merely interesting. I use AIGLX on Linux at home and actually turn it off from time to time because Beryl's effects get kinda old after a while (and Compiz is just plain boring). MacOS X has similar OpenGL-accelerated windowing effects, and has had them for quite a while, so it seems little more to me than a passing fad.
All the other benefits and new features that Vista will actually include elude me. In researching the product, I see no reason to even bother looking at Vista for any computer. Yet, I see so many people getting so excited about Vista and all the new stuff it will bring to their systems, that I have to stop and wonder.
So, I am asking, why does anyone want to buy Vista? Why should I consider an upgrade path to Vista? What's so exciting about it? I really want to know! Someone, PLEASE tell me!
Re:better than linux (Score:2)
(http://rtfm.insomnia.org/~qg/ | Last Journal: Wednesday November 16 2005, @07:11AM)
Re:so... (Score:2)
MOD PARENT UP (Score:1, Funny)
Slashdot, I urge you to mod UP.
Think of the children.
Re:better than linux (Score:4, Funny)
I'm going to take a 6 month sabbatical to meditate on your words. There's just something deeply compelling about what you have to say that fills me with a sense of longing for a truer understanding of this wacky universe of ours.
Thank you fellow scholar. You have changed me.
Re:better than linux (Score:1, Funny)
Dude, you have no sense of direction. Who do you think is on their hands and knees with their pants down when you run Windows? It sure in hell is not Billy Boy. His is on top bitch slapping your ass while yelling, "Who's your daddy!?". Care to rethink your position?
Re:Obligatory - but forced to honesty (Score:1)
And I would like welcome every Overlord connected (even remotely) to this wonderous event. I hope to make a lot of money out of it - as much as I made from XP's launch, maybe. Here's to you Bill ! I can hear my cash-register jingling now. OK Jingle Bells it ain't - but it is still jingling
Just one detail you should maybe want to notice, Bill, my friend. This post comes from a Linux machine; my personal machine. And Steve baby, try to do the next one quicker, would you please ! My investment fund you know - it needs your contribution through cooperation. Thanks
Re:First 1000 customers (Score:2)
(http://the-junkyard.net/)
I'd laugh if a variation on the old AIDS virus [wikipedia.org] was brought to Vista. That'd just be hillariously ironic.