Submitted by El Reg has made a few phonecalls to the big Microsoft OEMs, and confirmed that Microsoft will ship Vista to OEMs before Christmas 2006. It seems like only the retail version of Vista wil be delayed until January 2006 2007. When Microsoft delayed Vista about a week ago, it excluded the corporate version from that delay, saying that version will ship in November. It seems as if the OEM version will be available at that time as well.
Fools?
“It seems like only the retail version of Vista wil be delayed until January 2006.”
What? Do we get to have this year again?! 🙂
Err. Typo.
Nice cover story Thom, but I’ve always known you were an agent of Microsoft!
The truth is that Microsoft has solicited the services of Superman to reverse the spin of the earth, thus bringing us back rougly two years so Vista won’t actually be late. Since this is a gradual process next year will be 2006 again, and the one following that will be 2005. Those of you hugging your Apple and Linux boxes right now might want to savour the moment, when the second comming of 2005 happens you’ll all be running Vista.
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It seems that another buggy Operating System will be released as retail version in the end of 2006, and sold, in January 2007, to BetaBuyers …
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so, MS will be selling a supposedly stable OS in 2007, while shipping a version to OEM’s that will pottentially have problems.
sounds like MS doing business…
Every linux distro are full of bugs, yeah we we can’t complain because we get it free.
Edited 2006-04-02 11:01
OS X Leopard?
Oh why do I have visions of that picture that shows up on the image shares from time to time of the guy holding the cracked copy of XP Corp (with the FCKGW key) in front of the countdown to XP launch sign…
Fileshares are gonna be busy in November I guess.
that is good news. it has been long time since a major Operating system has been released. the last one was windows xp servicepack 2 couple years ago.
it has been long time since a major Operating system has been released
A major Windows Operating system version, indeed. Other Operating systems have been released since XP SP2.
Im sorry, but what other operating systems i only see windows installed everywhere from banks to lawyer’s firms. I’m sure the other os are also as good.
looks like they are treating the oems better to be on their good sides with all the potential competition
this is scary. vista is so so far from ready, i’m afraid to see what kind of crap they push out the door. i cant imagine how they can have it ready in such a short time.
i just tested the latest build (5342) on my Athlon 64 3200+, PCI-E 16x Geforce 6600GT, 2GB ddr400 ram. theyve got the features in there but everything is so completely unpolished. turning on glass really adds meaning to the word DRRRAG windows around. they move slow, its very annoying. there are so many bitmaps and fixed sized interfaces. wheres my scalable desktop that was promised? changing the dpi borked almost every icon and the glass visual style. dont give me no guff MS, i just loaded up xgl/compiz on this same box, my windows dragged around smooth as butter, with wobbling even. and they dont have nvidia/ati in their back pocket to help with years of driver support/refinement.
the new LUA thing is annoying as hell. the default install asked for permission to damn near anything, and run any compononent including microsoft digitally signed apps. there is nothing wrong with the whole seperate admin and users. half assing by still letting users run as admin, but with limitations is suicide for windows security. you dont run any os as root and limit priv where appropriate. you run as user and elevate to root where appropriate. and thats also how i run my XP desktop and I’ve never ever had a malware infestation. users should be users, not mutant hybrid lua limited administrators. it just takes one little bit of social engineering to have the limited user click the “give it admin privs” button. its not much better than just running as a plain admin as a solution to their security problems.
i thought microsoft had a lot of usability experts designing these ui’s. the first thing i did on xp was switch the control panel to classic view. i didn’t think it was possible, but in vista they bastardized it even further. navigating to settings is a labyrinth of redirections and UI inconsistencies.
le sigh. i use windows, but another borked windows release out the door, and MS is in for troubled times.