With Windows Vista barely out the door, Microsoft's been quiet about when the company will issue its first major update for the operating system.But someone forgot to send the memo to Intel CEO Paul Otellini, who made some comments regarding Vista Service Pace 1 during a financial presentation this week. Responding to a question about how enterprise users have been slow to adopt Vista, Otellini said he expected that to change when Microsoft release an operating system update in the fourth quarter of 2007, "probably in the October-November time frame."
Officially, Microsoft says it's still too early to put a date on the release. Does that mean Otellini leaked some information that he shouldn't have? Or was he just stating his assumption that Service Pack 1 would be available later this year. Either way, we're going to assume Otellini's educated guess is a heck of a lot more educated than ours.
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4-20-2007 @ 12:50PM
Peter said...
All this "wait until the first service pack" nonsense is just a holdover from the NT4 days. Initial releases are many, many times more reliable than in the past.
The only rationale for saying "I won't install it until the first SP" is for application and driver compatibility, not because of the fixes that the service pack will provide.
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4-20-2007 @ 2:04PM
DougW said...
The company I work for has all but stopped working with Vista, as the pricing is to high. XP is (roughly) $100 per machine; Vista is (roughly) $400 per - a very significant leap.
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4-20-2007 @ 3:30PM
Gyp Joe said...
Enterprises have enought to worry about and use their own upgrade cycles - these are not predicatable by o/s release timelines.
Blame the developers for not writing compatibility - they only have 3 years to get ready.
Are you high? Its virtually the same cost depending on the SKU - quit spreading FUD.
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