Gates: 80 Pct. Chance Vista Ready in Jan

Excite News ^ | 11 July 2006 | Excite/AP

[ShadowAce]

[newgeezer]

he would delay the launch if beta testing uncovered shortcomings.

I guess he means the pre-launch beta testing.

[af_vet_rr]

Translation: 80% chance that 20% of what was originally going to ship with Vista will ship in January.

[KarlInOhio]

Gates: 80 Pct. Chance Vista Ready in Jan

Gates: 99 Pct. Chance Vista Ready for major security fixes by Feb

[jamaksin]

The Mythical Man-Month and its "tar pits" rides again!

[Red Badger]

January? That will cripple Christmas sales of computers.........

[Lx]

Why upgrade? Windows XP does everything I need. From what I understand, there's some serious DRM in Vista and the big selling point, the SQL based file system was 'de-scoped' two years ago.
I like MS products but I'm not seeing the big difference between Vista and XP (or Win 2003) as there was say between NT 3.51 and 4.0 and NT4.0 and Windows 2000 with Active Directory.

[cinives]

Latest report - only 20% of bugs found have been acknowledged. Few have been fixed and most have been ignored - just like the rollout of XP.

Look for a huge Vista Service Pack 1 to follow after 6 months.

[Paradox]

I am running it on one of my home PC's, the latest Beta anyways. It is running better than I expected. I dont do much with it at this time though, but it runs well.

[K-oneTexas]

Right. In other words ... Following the tried and true Microsoft marketing strategy history the next technologically advanced operating system 'BETA' will be offered to the public shoved down the consumers throat for an modest outrageous price. Microsoft can then continue to tell the world how great they are.

[ShadowAce]

There is a way to beat MS if you wish. Just follow the tried-and-true method of free markets.

Go with their competition.

[Dot Warner]

I'm using XP release 1 with a good firewall plus virus/spyware scanners. Also use Firefox and Eudora in place of the MS hacker magnets.

Never a security problem.

No Microsoft call home to check on my license key, no DRM in the software, life is sweet.

[thinkthenpost]

I am seriously considering buying a new machine at the end of year right before Vista comes out with XP on it for that very same DRM wariness you seem to have. I intend to stay with XP until Microsoft ends support for the XP platform. That is the plan at this point anyway, I'll have Vista machines here at work so if there are any gotta have features I ought to be able to get to know Vista before any decisions about the home system has to be made.

[K-oneTexas]

Agreed. I run Linux and MS XP on my system. Like Lx, I also run XP release 1 with a good firewall plus virus/spyware scanners. Also use Firefox in place of the MS hacker magnets. Never a security problem here either. Used Eudora with my old Amiga, maybe I'll try it again. (Thanks for the memory Lx)

XP only because I have children in school and that's what the schools have there, easier for them no converting etc. When there are out of school ... MS is out-a-here.

[Vinnie]

Vista, would be ready in January.

Yawn

I am likely working on my last PC.
Certainly the last one with an MS operating system.

[djf]

Hmmm... wonder if I can get a 900 gig hard drive, a 6.4 ghz dual processor, and my direct link to one of the power stations on the Grand Coulee dam installed by then?
I ain't even ready to start thinkin about the video card requirements!

Vista is gonna bomb. Companies aren't going to fork out the cash for the hardware.

[K-oneTexas]

Bonb ... big time. Doesn't appear to be for the average user. Unless Microsoft is causing the world to get an upgrade (forcing them into the new PC Century) or it's relegating us back to no computer. (Maybe a marketing strategy to force you to buy a competitor.)

 [snip]However, one gets the feeling that if you stuck with the following minimum requirement specs you would have a system that runs like an ageing dog:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero.
• 128 MB of graphics memory.
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive.
• Audio output capability.
• Internet access capability.

Based on what Microsoft developers have said to date, Vista is memory hungry so, at a guess, a 2GB system is probably the real minimum and who only has a 1GHz processor these days?[snip]

From  Windows Vista Beta 2 now freely available but be warned
IT Wire ^ | June 8, 2006 | Stan Beer

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[mysterio]

Let me guess, in two years, I'll be forced to buy this thing. I'll have to have 2 gig of RAM and a 5 ghz processor, and it will still take 5 minutes to boot up. Then it will lock up, and I'll have to reinstall. At that point, the program will decide that I'm trying to pirate a copy, and it will force me to call Microsoft.

I'm moving towards mac, and I hate macs.

[djf]

Well, what they'll do is what they've done in the past. A few companies will start using it and creating Office documents, etc with the new system.
Older versions of Office won't be able to use the "features".

Heck, I'm running XP on a PII 300 MHZ laptop. It's a test machine I basically use for high speed wireless downloads.

All of the regular machines I use to do real work are running W2K or ME.

(I have about 12 computers)