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Posted by John Pollard on January 28, 2007, 11:00 am
Please log in for more thread options R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, John.
>
> Tuesday, January 30, 2007, is the long-anticipated date
> for general consumer availability of the Microsoft
> Windows Vista operating system. Many of us have been
> beta-testing it since the Summer of 2005 (about the time
> the codename "Longhorn" was dropped for the client
> version. The server version is still called Longhorn.) The
> official Windows Vista web page is here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/
>
> Millions of users worldwide have participated in testing
> Vista, and many of us are already using the "Gold"
> version, which was Released to Manufacturing (RTM) back
> in November 2006. It has been available to testers,
> developers and volume users since about 11/30/06, and
> lots of us have been using it since then. We've been
> handicapped because many hardware vendors have delayed
> drivers for their printers, graphics cards, etc., until
> general release, but those should all be ready by next
> week.
> Microsoft's launch festivities won't match those for
> Windows 95 a dozen years ago, and I doubt there will be
> campers outside Best Buy and Office Depot like those for
> PlayStation 3 a couple of months ago. But there has been
> a lot of publicity and speculation about what Vista will
> and won't do.
> Quicken users may not all be on the leading edge of
> computing, but we see the frenzy (?) in this newsgroup
> every year in about July and August when the NG is jammed
> with messages asking, "Is it here yet?", and "What new
> features are in it?" IT, of course, is the next year's
> version of Quicken. So I expect that at least a few of
> those eager readers here will be buying and installing
> Vista next week. And I said that they will be doing that
> STARTING next Tuesday, not that they all will rush out
> and get it it on the first day.
> I participate in several other newsgroups in addition to
> this one, including several Vista-related. Based on
> comments in those NGs, there will be at least a
> mini-flood of buyers in the first few days. As soon as
> the first adopters can assure others that the new OS does
> work, and that drivers are here and do work, many others
> will be buying Vista, too.
> In addition to simply being the newest version of
> Windows, Vista will bring 64-bit computing into the
> mainstream. Not immediately; 32-bit Vista (and Windows
> XP) will dominate for a few years, I expect. But with
> growing acceptance of 64-bit hardware, Vista x64 will
> become the default OS, I think, and probably before the
> end of this decade. The 64-bit version of Windows XP has
> been available for over 2 years, but was not widely
> adopted, largely because 64-bit drivers have not been
> available. But Vista x64 has many drivers built in, and
> others can be downloaded from hardware vendors' websites
> today; more will be ready by next Tuesday. And we should
> see 64-bit software being developed after that as the
> chicken-and-egg problem resolves itself.
> This post should probably have been in a new thread, but
> it's here because I had troubles installing Quicken 2007
> Release 3 on my Vista x64 system, so it relates to
> DotCom's question and Subject.
> Sorry for the long answer to a short question, John, but
> you know me. And you DID ask. ;^}
Thanks, R.C. I enjoyed it all.
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John Pollard
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