In your dreams; and a lot of people, MVPs and Vista book authors have
disagreed. Kevin where can I buy your Vista book?

CH


"Kevin John Panzke" <kevpan815********.com> wrote in message
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> 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!
>>
>> "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):
>>>
>>> Mary Jo Foley's ZDNet Blog:
>>>
>>> [url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=53[/url]
>>>
>>> [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.
>>>
>>> CH
>>>
>>>
>>>
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