Filed under: Business, OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft
Windows Vista launches
by Chris Gilmer Dec 1st 2006
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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