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Windows Vista release slips to Q4 2006
IDG News Service ^
| July 28, 2005
| Elizabeth Montalbano
Posted on 07/28/2005 2:40:51 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: CheneyChick
For consistent naming purposes it will be called Windows 2005.
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posted on
07/28/2005 2:42:14 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Mohammad spent more than half his life killing infidels)
To: CheneyChick
"Microsoft had previously slated the release of the next client version of it Windows operating system (OS) for the second half of 2006. But at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Conference in Redmond, Washington, Thursday, Will Poole, senior vice president of the client division of Microsoft, said the OS would not be available until the 2006 holiday time frame in the U.S. "
so is the "holiday" time frame not in the second half of the year?
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posted on
07/28/2005 2:42:41 PM PDT
by
tfecw
(Vote Democrat, It's easier than working)
To: CheneyChick
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posted on
07/28/2005 2:42:51 PM PDT
by
evets
(You're welcome.)
To: CheneyChick
That's still long enough away for it to be pushed back to Q3 2007.
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posted on
07/28/2005 2:42:54 PM PDT
by
SaveTheChief
(There are 10 types of people -- those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
To: CheneyChick
The software told me I needed Windows 98 or better, so I went out and bought a Mac.
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posted on
07/28/2005 2:44:58 PM PDT
by
arbusto99
To: thoughtomator
For consistent naming purposes it will be called Windows 2005. Maybe they should have left it "Longhorn". Gave a whole new meaning to "long".
To: CheneyChick
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posted on
07/28/2005 2:48:44 PM PDT
by
sigSEGV
To: thoughtomator
Someone on Slashdot suggested that 'Vista' would eventually be shortened to VI which is the next version of Windows (6). With the XP moniker, I assumed they would be dropping the yearly labels.
To: CheneyChick
Why am I not surprised? Now it'll be out after the release of Apple's OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") and be even further behind.
However, I have to give MS props on the extensive beta testing. Maybe for the first time a new version of Windows will actually be usable before SP1.
To: sigSEGV
Ha ha ha... I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of these. In some other news, I heard Microsoft was developing it's own distribution of Linux. If Microsoft would make a Linux distro it would be less stable (on purpose), lack all kinds of compatibility so your enterprise applications will not run on it, and be completely incompatible with your current MS documents.
To: CheneyChick
Anyone know what the underpinnings are of Longhorn / Vista? Is it UNIX based or still M/S proprietary?
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posted on
07/28/2005 3:28:22 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
To: antiRepublicrat
However, I have to give MS props on the extensive beta testing. Maybe for the first time a new version of Windows will actually be usable before SP1.Well you know the saying "If you want it bad, you get it bad".
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posted on
07/28/2005 3:31:44 PM PDT
by
w1andsodidwe
(Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
To: antiRepublicrat
Maybe for the first time a new version of Windows will actually be usable before SP1.Gotta love your optimism!
To: 6SJ7
Its still the same NT kernel.
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posted on
07/28/2005 4:04:41 PM PDT
by
sigSEGV
To: CheneyChick
Why don't they call it Microsoft VaporWare or MS:VW ?
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posted on
07/28/2005 4:05:16 PM PDT
by
Wacka
To: CheneyChick
I've run Linux on boxes for several years now, but I've stayed away from the "fancy" desktops like Gnome and KDE. I finally loaded up Gnome 2.10 and was blown away at how good it was.
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posted on
07/28/2005 4:07:19 PM PDT
by
sigSEGV
To: All
Is it me or does it sorta look like the Mac OS?
BTW, since SP2 XP has been running great for me... Now if I could say the same for my Dell... :-(
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posted on
07/28/2005 4:10:30 PM PDT
by
CollegeRepublicanNU
(Currently Attending The Rush Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies)
To: Wacka
Why don't they call it Microsoft VaporWare or MS:VW ?
Microsoft Windows VW
Fahrfrumüsen!
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posted on
07/28/2005 4:13:00 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: sigSEGV
Right up front I can tell you the icons are nowhere near large enough.![](http://www.users.qwest.net/~brianacuff/images/folders.jpg)
Freakin' pinheads.
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posted on
07/28/2005 4:15:58 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Every evil which liberals imagine Judaism and Christianity to be, islam is.)
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