P.S. Windows Vista is 100% Ready for RTM on October 25th, 2006.

"Kevin John Panzke" <kevpan815********.com> wrote in message
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> Complete Non-Sense!
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> "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]
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>> Quote from CRN:
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>> "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.
>>
>> CH
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