Vista to be delayed by 'a few weeks'

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delayed yet again :p

Vista May Be Delayed by a Few Weeks

The Microsoft chairman and chief software architect also used his keynote at WinHEC to announce the availability of beta 2 releases of three major products: Microsoft’s latest and long-awaited operating system (OS) Windows Vista, its next office suite, Microsoft Office 2007, and Windows Server, codenamed Longhorn.

While the beta 2 of Windows Vista is available, the consumer version of the new OS could be pushed back past the stated January launch date, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at a news conference in Tokyo.

The operating system was due to be launched this year but in March the company said it wouldn't get broad release until January 2007. Ballmer said the planned January launch may slip further based on feedback from a beta release program and the product road-maps of hardware vendors.
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/5be308e6-205d-4528-b05d-315dc5887bca.html
 
Plus-44 said:
What a suprise :rolleyes:

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why the rolleyes? after a 5 year gap from the release of xp, a few weeks/months is hardly going to make a difference is it.... :p

i'd rather wait until they are happy with it rather than it being forced out the door. :)
 
marc2003 said:
i'd rather wait until they are happy with it rather than it being forced out the door. :)
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Its still going to be bug ridden at release just like all the other microsoft operating systems :p
 
I'm not fussed, as long as it's good when it comes out - I couldn't care less if it's a few weeks past the "deadline."

XP does me fine, and probably will do for another couple of years yet.
 
Energize said:
Its still going to be bug ridden at release just like all the other microsoft operating systems :p
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Quoted for b*******

Win2k was near flawless at release as was XP.
But then again sticking up for MS isn't cool is it?
 
Most of the problems on launch day and the following few months is related to third party driver problems.
 
NathanE said:
Most of the problems on launch day and the following few months is related to third party driver problems.
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Which, hopefully, due to changes MS has made in the way drivers run (audio, graphics etc to user-mode) should no longer bring the rest of the system down. So it should be even less 'bug-ridden' than any other OS at release.

Also, the x64 release only allows signed drivers, iirc. So that should help even more.
 
Unfortunatly Microsoft can't test everything in every different enviroment on every peice of hardware.

Everyone moans and says Micro$h** all the time. Very good, very clever, if you can do, or find a better O/S then use that. If anyone has every developed anything before you will realise problems/bugs/new features are coming about all the time.

The new version of Windows will be out when it's out. Would you rather it was pushed out early with problems, or missing features?
 
csmager said:
Which, hopefully, due to changes MS has made in the way drivers run (audio, graphics etc to user-mode) should no longer bring the rest of the system down. So it should be even less 'bug-ridden' than any other OS at release.

Also, the x64 release only allows signed drivers, iirc. So that should help even more.
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Yup. I've mentioned this many times in other threads but it never seems to sink in! :p
 
Because they delayed it again, I'm not ever going to buy it. That'll teach Microsoft to mess me around - you just don't do things like that.
 
stoofa said:
Quoted for b*******

Win2k was near flawless at release as was XP.
But then again sticking up for MS isn't cool is it?
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I dont have any problems with the operating system now but Id be a fanboy if I said xp was near flawless at release, it couldnt even support big hard drives and there was so many security holes.
 
Basic question here.

Do you rekon that it will be possible to upgrade XP to Vista or do you think that they are so difference that it will have to be a complete new install? I was just wondering.
 
5tephen said:
lmao
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:D
Do you rekon that it will be possible to upgrade XP to Vista or do you think that they are so difference that it will have to be a complete new install? I was just wondering.
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It will be possible, but it's probably inadvisable. It is quite a shift, so a clean install would be a better idea.
 
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