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Windows Vista release dates announced
by Jordan Running Nov 2nd 2006 at 1:17PM
Been waiting on the edge of your seat to see if you won your office's when-will-Vista-be-released pool? Today's the day! According to APC Magazine, Microsoft has officially announced the final release dates for Windows Vista: November 30, 2006 for business customers and January 30, 2007 for consumers. For the 7.7% of you who said you'd be buying Vista on the day it's released, that's a Thursday and a Tuesday, respectively. Mark your calendars. Microsoft is on schedule for an RTM (release to manufacturing) around the middle of this month.In case you haven't been keeping up, here's Vista's retail prices for your reference:
- Vista Home Basic: $199 ($99.95 upgrade)
- Vista Home Premium: $239 ($159 upgrade)
- Vista Business: $299 ($199 upgrade)
- Vista Ultimate: $399 ($259 upgrade)
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joseph Villalobos said 2:23PM on 11-02-2006
So how many of you are going to be camping out over night just to make sure you get one???
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johnkimble said 3:38PM on 11-02-2006
How many of us are going to be taking out a second mortgage to afford this garbage might be a better question.
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Brian McBride said 3:48PM on 11-02-2006
Totally useless upgrade for me. As a graphic artist Microsoft (again) failed to meet any needs for font management. And all the 3rd party tools are Mac bases with rare-to-none updates for Windows.
Vista will be an OS I will have to downgrade to XP on future machines until someone fixes this issue.
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Brent said 8:19PM on 11-02-2006
While I do like Mac's looks... the PC has always done everything I've wanted. Yes there's that parallels thing now, and boot camp... but eh, I'm sticking with my custom PC and upgrading to Vista Ultimate when it launches.
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Ian said 6:16PM on 11-03-2006
ecent people experiencing the lastest Beta version report that it is running extremely slowly..
Q: will this massive issue be addressed in the final version to be released to consumers?
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Rich said 10:12AM on 11-03-2006
What does "Business customers" mean? If I own a business, then can I buy Vista in November?
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thekingofconvenience@gmail.com said 10:54AM on 11-03-2006
well I'm getting Vista Ultimate and a few other things for $220 US right when it comes out but i have to say before this cheep deal i wasn't going to get vista until SP1
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