Windows Vista Is Golden
Posted by Tom Warren on 08 November 2006 - 18:36 · 175 comments,
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As promised yesterday and after 5 years of development, Vista is
finally finished.
Jim Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft's Platforms &
Services Division has put together a video about the announcement
where he announces the General Availability (GA) date of 30 January
2007 for Vista.
Nick White, product manger in Windows client also had this to share
with Neowin readers:
"Ultimately, we never could have achieved this milestone without
you, the enthusiast community, who have played a key role in making
this the highest-quality, most secure, most reliable and most
usable version of Windows the world has ever seen. You gave us
unprecedented support in testing and providing your feedback while
we designed, developed and refined Windows Vista -- so much so that
it has in many ways become a reflection of your involvement."
On a conference call with Jim Allchin, Microsoft announced that
they will have 18 languages at launch in January and will ship 32
within 100 days of English RTM.
Availability of the RTM code on MSDN is still not known officially
with a Microsoft spokesperson citing "within 7 days" after todays
announcement. Given MSDN has scheduled down time from 7PM PST to
9PM PST on Friday, November 10th - I'd expect it to arrive shortly
after that.
I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Microsoft, its
partners and OEMs and wish Jim Allchin all the best with his
retirement from Microsoft at the end of January - good work
guys.
Source: http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=36056
Note: Gold doesn't mean stable. But it does mean that the price is
also very 'golden'.