Microsoft officially announced the launch of Windows Vista for business customers yesterday, and expects more than 200 million users will be working with this new version by the end of 2007. At a presentation on Thursday, Steve Ballmer said that Vista, along with Office 2007 and Exchange server will be "game-changing". With all of the delays, and the consumer version not being released until the end of January, Katie Fehrenbacher at GigaOM asks whether or not we care about the launch. Personally, I couldn't really care less. Knowing Microsoft's track record, there will undoubtedly be some unfilled holes in the OS, and I will be in no rush to test it out until the first few fixes are released. But you never know--Microsoft might surprise us this time.
You can check out a webcast of Steve Ballmer's presentation on the Microsoft Window's Vista website.
So, what do you think? Will you be prepared to install Vista at its consumer release out in January?
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12-01-2006 @ 4:04PM
Mosh Jahan said...
I have been using Ultimate Edition since the MSDN RTM release and have not encountered any issues so far. It has been very stable as has Office 2007.
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12-01-2006 @ 6:30PM
Mark said...
Personally I think you should realize that you're not going to get a perfect OS or program from anywhere and that you should stop being an MS troll and exhibit just a bit of professionalism.
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12-02-2006 @ 3:33PM
Dave McNeal said...
You work for a software-focused blog...
One of the biggest software releases of the decade comes up (brand new version of the operating system that more than 90% of the world's computers use)...
Your reaction: "I couldn't really care less"...
I say: "Get a new @#$% job, buddy."
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12-02-2006 @ 4:52PM
Chris Gilmer said...
Thanks Dave - I think the excitement wore off about Vista a long time ago... all of the delays, and not being released to the public until the end of January kind of made me numb.
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