Windows Vista Released To Manufacturing

Many readers wrote in to make sure we know that Microsoft execs have signed off on the code and Windows Vista has been and released to manufacturing. As APC put it, "It's good to go — or as good as it is going to be until the first round of patching begins." CNN has a good roundup of Vista's long development history.

CNN !=CNET

[SNR monkey]

Amazingly, the summary has an error, the link is to a CNET article, not a CNN article. It doesn't make much sense for CNN to be covering the RTM of an operating system.

Tagspam

[Fyz]

Someone is either seriously paranoid or is abusing his right to tag the summaries.

What's the point with those tags anyway? Are they mini-posts or what? They certainly can't be used for searching...

Where's a good history

[jbengt]

"CNN has a good roundup of Vista's long development history" links to CNET, and doesn't have a history of what became Vista.

Tried it; don't like it; have switched :)

[Anonymous Coward]

I have tried all versions of Vista since 2002/3 and while it showed a lot of promise back then today it is just a disappointment.

I really hate what they have done with the UI, it looks and feels cheep, it looks unfinished and inconsistent between applications.

I have waited as long as possible but when I used RC2 and still disliked it I decided that I was going to make the switch and today I have done just that :)

I just bought myself a 15" 2.33Ghz MacBook Pro. Yes it was expensive but not more expensive than an identical spec Dell or HP laptop (which are of much lower build quality when I compared them side by side in my local John Lewis)*

So in around 7 days time I will have my nice new MacBook Pro. I am a little nervous about switching however I have spent the past 15 months researching it and have borried an old iMac G5 from a friend to try it out and I think I will be very happy on OS X. A great bonus for me is that I no longer have to spend money on Visual Studio as Xcode comes included making a Mac a MUCH cheaper platform for me :)

* I did not purchase from John Lewis, Apple gave me a much better deal on the phone.

Nested comments

[nickos]

What the hell just happened to the "Reply to this" links - they were here a minute ago. Slashdot's best asset is the quality of the discussions, and that's only possible because of nested comments!