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Vista: Complete

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After years of waiting, Windows Vista has finally been completed. Yesterday, Microsoft gave a press release announcing that Windows Vista has been finished and released to manufacturing. As planned, we will (hopefully) be seeing Vista on January 30th, 2007. Microsoft has more info on the RTM:

Release to manufacturing signifies the completion of our development work and the start of the next phase for Windows Vista. Windows Vista is the highest-quality version of Windows that we’ve ever produced. We’ve had more people test more builds than previous development cycles, and the result is that we received more feedback than ever before.

 

That being said, Windows Vista’s journey is not yet done. PC makers, device manufacturers and software developers can finalize work on their products and applications to ensure great customer experiences when Windows Vista becomes available -- to our volume license customers this month and consumers on January 30, 2007.

So now that Vista is out (well, kinda), what's Apple's next move: a surprise release at Macworld or those "top secret" features Steve mentioned?

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Sabr
I thought Apples plan was to release leopard earlier than Vista?

 

Yeah, but at the WWDC, Steve said there were top secret things which he couldn't tell us about...

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Zealot

WHO S WAITING FOR VISTA ?

 

I KNOW IT WILL FINALLY UNLEASH DIRECT X 10.THATS WHY WE ARE WAITING THIS VISTA RIGHT?

 

DONT TELL ME YOU BEEN WAITING THIS OS .

 

greetings.

saludos

chiao

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Zealot

thats true easy crapy things sell.

the other thing that is also truth is meanwile we are talking about this

Steve Jobs is in Ibiza on their private beach and next to him is Bill Gates taking a martini and playing Xbox 360 .

 

off topic but true.

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sandmanfvrga

Vista is done. Oh God help us, and I am not being funny. I am system admin and I DREAD having to role this out and I think my parent company is going to wait for a year or so, thank God! XP is still buggy in certain instances and they are going to Vista, ok. To me XP was like 95 and Windows 2000 was like 98. To me, I think 2000 is most stable. I use it here at work. Most use XP, but I haven't upgraded (spend more on the employees since I don't need the latest and greatest). I am due for an upgrade and I hope when I do, I can get Vista, dual boot, and see how bad it is and tell everybody to stay away., or wait for at least a year till SP1 or later.

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I for one am waiting for vista. :)

 

I don't care too much for what everyone else says IMHO I think that vista has some brilliant new features even if it has only taken 5 years. :P

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FabricioGS
WHO S WAITING FOR VISTA ?

 

I KNOW IT WILL FINALLY UNLEASH DIRECT X 10.THATS WHY WE ARE WAITING THIS VISTA RIGHT?

 

DONT TELL ME YOU BEEN WAITING THIS OS .

 

I agree. PC users think XP is the best thing ever happened (just because is the - first and - most stable Windows). To run DX10 most people will have to do a hardware upgrade, so who´s waiting for that?

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sev7en
djpc47-

 

We report on it since a lot of Macintel users run Windows. :-)

I agree... cos some softwares I need for, as Localizator/Multilizer are Windows only :angel:

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Fearless

I don't like vista. It was promissed to be a revolutionary os. But then M$ dropped the most exciting features like WinFS, things like instant searching was implemented in other os's. You can have it with 3rd party software in xp as well. So it's just a shadow of what it could have been. So for now i'll stick with xp and osx86. At least until leopard hits the stores. :angel:

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s0me.one

I'm not going to try it in my box...

 

I think there's no competitive reason between Windows and Mac OS X... Windows is the OS of gamers... The *nix world is growing faster... and the ambition of getting a Macintosh is even increasing... People like its style... And it's philosophy, that's why this project exists...

 

So... My conclusion is: Windows will fall...

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SuperJudge
WHO S WAITING FOR VISTA ?

 

I KNOW IT WILL FINALLY UNLEASH DIRECT X 10.THATS WHY WE ARE WAITING THIS VISTA RIGHT?

 

DONT TELL ME YOU BEEN WAITING THIS OS .

 

greetings.

saludos

chiao

Wait my :(. The MikeIntosh just got updated to 10.4.7. :blink:

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oregano

january 30?

hmm...thats earlier than i last heard, which was around may

i guess thats a good sign for M$

im not gonna get it, im running xp and i plan on my next computer being a macbook (i hope, at least)

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non sequitur

my family might get a copy of it to install onto my old pc so it can be a server of sorts for media. even if we do get that, i still have no idea if im going to upgrade my xp system.

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Mebster
You may have your own twisted opinions, but Windows will never fail :gun:
It better not be too old or you wont serve :angel:

Ummm.... relax. Have some tea. maybe buy a relaxation ball. :dev: => :huh: => :) => ;) => :D

 

I tried Vista RCI (forgot what build) not to long ago. It looked cool but was almost always using 40%-50% of my 1GB Memory. And that's just after startup. That sucked.

 

Also I hated that it had not fully been compatible with some basic software's like Nero. What's that about?

 

So I uninstalled and it went back to XP even though I had another 9 or so months of the trial remaining.

 

So it's NO WAY near ready. I honestly think it probably needs another 6-12 months, even though you would have though 5 years should have been enough time.

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