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.

Last version of Windows

[CrazyTalk]

With each release Windows becomes more bloated and bug ridden, and it takes more time for a release. For the avearage consumer, computer OS's have reached maturity - there is really very little motivation for the average user to upgrade from XP to Vista (unlike going from DOS to Windows 3.1, or Windows 3.1 to Win 95 etc. which were huge changes). How much longer can this continue? Is anyone else convinced that this will be the last version of Windows as we know it?

Interesting counter point

[UnknowingFool]

The other day, MS was trying to convince business to install both Vista and Office 2007 at the same time saying it would be easier on companies. If you read this article, MS basically provides a counter point why companies should not:

Allchin said that, with Vista code done, businesses will "now start hard-core deployment testing" and make sure their applications work with the operating system. . . .
"Businesses need to do their testing. They need to be very comfortable," he said.

Given MS long history of releases and patches and patches to fix patches, only fools would not take on two simultaneous large scale MS deployments at once.

wow!

[minus_273]

2003 is already here! This is going to rock! [youtube.com]. Funny how conan is still singing about the year 2000. Silly conan.

new activation technology

[eljasbo]

It seems that Microsoft is wanting to stop people buying a volume license key and installing it on unlimited computers. They have new Volume Activation 2.0 now [microsoft.com] that gives you a central activation server or a multiple activation key now. My new volume license key is now available at their page also. I just need the iso now...