Lee Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Microsoft revealed Tuesday afternoon what many had expected for months - consumer availability of Windows Vista has been delayed until 2007.While businesses would be able to get their hands on the finished product in November, consumers would not find the operating system on new machines until January. The delay also throws a wrench into the holiday marketing plans of many PC manufacturers this season.Vista chief Jim Allchin said that the delay resulted from both quality issues as well as requests from some of its partners. "We're trying to do the responsible thing here," Allchin told reporters in a hastily arranged teleconference.Source: BetaNews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterripper Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 dammit, they are doing the same thing that sony does, tells us that something will be out on a particular date and when that time comes they have a excuse as to why to push the release date even later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x0o Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 i hope they dont pull a halflife2/worldofwarcraft-type-of-delay :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsane Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 they delayed a DRM choked client another year, it's good news if ya ask me :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lammster Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I'm not particularly looking forward to Vista either. :) The only things I'm expecting from Vista are intense bloatware with a nifty GUI backed by a multi-billion dollar ad campaign. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 The delay has caused the stocks of electronics majors like Samsung to go down ....I think the ad campaign was for around $500 mil (I may be wrong though, $500mil sound too big a number) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eBait Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Gee... I'm trying Ubuntu now. Works great, and I'm not doing anything illegal ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 they delayed a DRM choked client another year, it's good news if ya ask me ;)i think its being delay becaose of drm and copy protections for the 2 different dvd formats that are coming up and being delayed too. and also EU looking into microsoft again doesnt help. microsoft already said there would b at least 7 different versions of win vista for the world. 2 special ones just for europe.when the usa government under clinton went after microsoft (for not giving hima nd al gore any money for 96 campaign) we ended up with win ME crap. with the wait that make should let the new dvd players for computers be release by then. im guesing they will not have burning option for the new ones for another year maybe. shit, they took for ever to allow Dl burning. and i frankly dont know how we are going to protect are disk with 30-50 gb on them from becoming unreadable. well actually they never said they was going to realease burners for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lammster Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 The delay has caused the stocks of electronics majors like Samsung to go down ....I think the ad campaign was for around $500 mil (I may be wrong though, $500mil sound too big a number)you know I was exagerating a bit. $500 million does sound about right though. I meant it more as a slant about MS products not being able to stand on completely on their own legs. I needn't mention the vicious cycle of compatibility issues that makes the OS thrive regardless, but I did any way. But I digress. Everyone likes to hate on Windows. I'm happy they've decided to push back the release however, until the product is hopefully be in some shape to release to the public, unlike XP when it was first released. I still have nightmares of all that tedium of slipstreaming all those hotfixes into my install disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 The delay has caused the stocks of electronics majors like Samsung to go down ....I think the ad campaign was for around $500 mil (I may be wrong though, $500mil sound too big a number)you know I was exagerating a bit. $500 million does sound about right though. I meant it more as a slant about MS products not being able to stand on completely on their own legs. I needn't mention the vicious cycle of compatibility issues that makes the OS thrive regardless, but I did any way. But I digress. Everyone likes to hate on Windows. I'm happy they've decided to push back the release however, until the product is hopefully be in some shape to release to the public, unlike XP when it was first released. I still have nightmares of all that tedium of slipstreaming all those hotfixes into my install disk.i seem to remember that win 95 was $250 ad . win xp was a bit more. problem with win xp was it was piss poor beta tested. i believe thats when microsoft started charging people to be beta testers. plus having win xp released in russia before the product was release offically didnt help. microsoft wasnt controling the makers well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NthDegree Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Ignore the glitchy home user cr@p and go for reliability, the server series is the stuff you should be after!Like for instance Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or the latest Windows Server software.After a little tweaking it can be used just like XP/Vista and even has nice security to go with, plus because it's all business gear the checking and stuff on it is lax (especially on the enterprise edition) so it's got more going for it then the next generation home user sh!t microsoft tries to push on us.Plus they have to rewrite all the coding on vista becuase source code to XP leaked apparently so they have to redo all the leaked bits, instead of just pileing in more cr@p.I'd in my honest opinon say that Server 2003 x64 is better than any x64 linux out there (especially for being at it's peak for security when tweaked).What Microsoft are trying to do is make Vista secure out-of-the-box like linux is, but what they are missing is that the techies of the world don't need secure out-of-the-box when it can all be tweaked to suit the system anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMANTICGUY50 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I dont know to much about VISTA but I have heard that there are different versions of Vista. So far I am happy using XP. At least until it is out for awhile. I didnt put SP2 on my computers for quite awhile. I like it better than SP1. I dont know if I have all the requirements on my puter for Vista. Figures that Mictosoft would delay it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest simon Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 since they have delayed vista maybe there will be more than 2 graphics cards which willa actualy run vitas aero. Also the aero thing should help bring down the prices for hard core graphics. Since vista is going to be so power hungry the min spec machine will be alot more powerful then this generations. though the transisition will be slow. look at computers in the past months computers are coming with ither 512 or 1Gig of mem, which is a huge boost from 256, which will mean the top of the line will be even better because of the industry boost with vista. though waiting for somthing more stable then xp will suck, but vista will be a money hog for sometime if your not buying a new rig. thats mi 2cents on vista...:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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