Complete Non-Sense!

"Chad Harris" <Vista RTM is really Beta 1.net> wrote in message
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> It's lookin like the part Turkey part Vista is appropriately gearing up
> for a Thanksgiving week launch in the Big Apple ( I guess Seattle is the
> little Apple):
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> Mary Jo Foley's ZDNet Blog:
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> [url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=53[/url]
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> [url]http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml;jsessionid=V1XOFDC5AGVQMQSNDLSCKHA?articleId=193303500[/url]
>
> Quote from CRN:
>
> "The long-touted Microsoft Vista/Office 2007 tandem launch is on for the
> last week in November in New York, sources said. This event will focus on
> business usage and scenarios.
> The new client Windows operating system and Office client and server
> applications have been promised for volume business customers by year's
> end and for consumers by early 2007. "
>
>
> Quote from Allchin:
> Vista is not on track to be released to manufacturing on October 25,
> according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platforms and
> services division.
>
> "We won't RTM (release to manufacturing) in a week," Allchin told me on
> October 18. "We are in pretty good shape. And there are still months
> before (the January 2007) launch."
>
> Allchin said Microsoft is looking at Vista across five categories right
> now to determine whether it's RTM-ready.
>
> The five: Reliability, security, performance, driver coverage and
> application compatibility. While some of these categories - such as driver
> coverage and app compatibility - may not be as robust as many would expect
> in order for Vista to RTM, Microsoft looks at things a bit differently,
> Allchin said.
>
> "We have to be done with Vista before the ecosystem can finish the rest,"
> Allchin said.
>
> An April Fools Day Launch April 1, 2007 would be a lot better for
> customers.
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> CH
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