Vista Gets Official Release Dates

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."

Re:All in all...

[Czar the Bizarre]

funnily enough The Wall was released on the same day [wikipedia.org] (albeit in 1979).

Why is the delay such a big deal?

[wizrd_nml]

Let me say up front I consider myself computer savvy but definitely not a programmer or an expert. My question to everyone is, why is everyone so upset about how long it's taking for Windows Vista to come out?

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:535?

[Anonymous Coward]

Base 11.201739?

University licenses

[thesupermikey]

Does anyone have any details on which flavor of Vista will be made available for university licenses?

Lackluster Sales Expected?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Sucks to be a computer vendor

[dreamlax]

Toshiba pride themselves in being a "genuine" Windows provider (I work for Toshiba). Although, quite a few laptops have a second partition on the hard drive which is a media player. Basically instead of booting to Windows it boots to this small OS that just plays DVDs so you don't have to wait for Windows to load . . . and guess what OS that might be? Yeah . . . Linux. And, for a very, very, very brief moment, you can see the words "Loading bzImage...".

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One small caveat

[Anonymous Coward]

(my experience). KDE doesn't handle disk copies fluidly enough: I do see a lack of responsiveness in the UI when copying large files. It may be becuause of the KIOSlaves being a little too blocking for their needs...