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Why Windows Vista should be flawless

October 18, 2006

If you want something done properly, do it yourself, so the saying goes. And Microsoft has done just that when testing beta versions of the upcoming Windows Vista operating system.

A product manager for Microsoft UK visited PC Advisor today and told us that the company has rolled out around 50,000 Windows Vista installs to staff globally, with the majority of Microsoft employees now using the OS.

To all intents and purposes, the operating system is complete, with only a few minor tweaks expected before the release to businesses next month, and consumers in January. Those dates are set in stone now, the Microsoft spokesperson told us.

Compared to previous pre-release versions, the final edition will be quicker to install (it now takes 15 minutes for a clean install), while those upgrading their XP machines will also be pleasantly surprised with the install times, we were told.

Also, keep your eyes peeled for some big software announcements to coincide with Windows Vista’s release. Microsoft said several developers are working on products to make the most of Vista’s advances, and we were told that Microsoft bigwig Jim Allchin, co-president of its platforms and services division, described one as "the best Windows application ever".

Posted by: Paul Trotter

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Posted by zgeorgem on October 18, 2006 :

hi i am working for microsoft tech support and i must say i am receivng a lotta calls from ms employees about how cool the OS is... MS has finally hit the spot i guess...

Posted by Richard Crow on October 19, 2006 :

But how much is it going to cost?

Posted by john keeling on October 19, 2006 :

hi i am trying uot a evaulation
copy off vista (tm)rc i find i manged to get all my drivers working with vista but my dell printer thats on the 32 the64 edtion i find was lot more harder to use has it has to much security on it will not
let any drivers be used if it was not guinune and i find
both some times abit irrreting in starting up a lot tro work i feel will wait for secod edtion to come out

Posted by petersmyth1 on October 20, 2006 :

Microsoft bigwig Jim Allchin, co-president of its platforms and services division, described one as "the best Windows application ever".

Didn't they say that about XP too so how can they improve on that?

Posted by BigSean on October 23, 2006 :

@zgeorgem - Yeah, because folks always call tech support to say how awesome stuff is working. Cripes - what a shill.

Posted by Maxwolf on October 23, 2006 :

And BigSean thinks he knows it's all. Universe complete. Game over.

Posted by Yuri Tarded on October 23, 2006 :

To: "John Keeling"

(1) Punctuation. This post is one long long sentence!
(2) Spelling.
(3) Capitalization. "I", not "i".

Thank you!

Posted by AA on October 23, 2006 :

i tried out vista rc2 for a while but it just made me want to install OS X on my pc instead. vista is nice, but there were too many nag screens for me. not only that, but the 'security' features kept me from installing many programs that i use. maybe the official release will be better, but i will just be using my hackintosh instead.

Posted by Chris3d on October 23, 2006 :

Um.....as far as testing goes, MS allowed for ALOT of external beta and RC1/RC2 testing. The CPP was limited, but still allowed outsiders to have access to test Windows Vista.

Posted by Chris3d on October 23, 2006 :

sorry for double posting, but I found out that the RC1 version is still available to external testers, and can be found @:
www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

Posted by osiris@abydos.kmt on October 23, 2006 :

Are you a Yes Man stooge for Microsoft or what? I'm sure it's going to be the perfect OS ... just like the last one and the one before that and the one before that. Yeah, sure.

Posted by perzj@aapt.net.au on October 23, 2006 :

will vista run over window xp with s/p 2 THANHS

Posted by Who on October 23, 2006 :

What

Posted by HUGH on October 23, 2006 :

I've tried all the pre-release versions of Vista and see no compelling reason to switch.
My impression is that Vista will sell a lot of Macs.

Posted by BrokenCrystal on October 23, 2006 :

The only problem that I see is that Windows doesn't run Linux programs very well.

Posted by Nic on October 23, 2006 :

"i am receivng a lotta calls from ms employees about how cool the OS is..."

of course you are, they made it! it will probably be awful, just like XP. ive used RC1 of Vista and it didnt impress me at all. theyre just rereleasing every feature of Apple's Mac OS X and putting Microsoft branding on it.

boo and hisas.

Posted by haid on October 23, 2006 :

The best thing since Oragami

Posted by Ted on October 26, 2006 :

I know what the best Windows application ever...is.

Email me at: bestwindowsapplicationever@gmail.com

I will send you a link. Not spam. On the level!

Posted by trispen911 on October 27, 2006 :

Does anyone actually know what advantage (apart from visual) has over XP?

Posted by citizenblue on November 3, 2006 :

kaspersky will not recognise the reg code posted to me via my e-mail what can i do to remedy this?

Posted by citizenblue on November 3, 2006 :

kaspersky will not recognise the reg code posted to me via my e-mail what can i do to remedy this?

Paul Trotter
Blogger Paul Trotter has been addicted to online news since ditching newspapers at the dawn of the internet. He's been writing about the IT market for ten years and is editor of PC Advisor.

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