Windows Vista Weblog

September 8th, 2006

Windows Vista delay in Europe?

Microsoft has raised the possibility that it might delay the introduction of its new Vista Windows operating system in Europe. The reason for this would be the dependency on the European Commission’s antitrust requirements.
Microsoft said in a statement it made concrete proposals to the European Union’s executive Commission, responding to its concerns about new features […]

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August 1st, 2006

Vista: This sucker is just not ready!

Once again, the subject is: Vista delays! Last week we had Microsoft’s annual investors meeting, now we have ex-MS blogger Scoble who writes: This sucker is just not ready!
Too many things are too slow and/or don’t work. I’ve been on the betas of every Windows OS since Windows 3.1 and Vista is starting to feel […]

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July 27th, 2006

Windows Vista shipment details galore!

Nobody knows when Vista will ship, but MS said today that it sees no reason now why its new Windows Vista operating system would be delayed… Uhm… Ok. This was on Microsoft’s annual investors meeting, where Kevin Johnson, co-president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division, also spoke these historical words: “We will ship Windows Vista […]

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July 11th, 2006

Vista delay galore

Bill said in an interview that there’s a 80 percent chance for Windows Vista to be ready for its scheduled release in January. That means there is a 20 percent chance for another Vista delay.
According to a Dow Jones Newswires report, Gates told Microsoft software partners in South Africa this week that the operating […]

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March 28th, 2006

MS Employees angry about Vista delay

The Vista delay has dissapointed a lot of people, including Microsoft employees. Postings on a Microsoft blog by company staffers over the past week reveal dismay, anger, and even demands for high-level resignations. This all because of the company’s delays of Vista consumer releases and Office desktop productivity suite. The Mini-Microsoft blog includes a number […]

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March 22nd, 2006

Vista delayed, release in 2007?

OMG, it’s not gonna be October, not November and not December… It’s gonna be January 2007! Here’s the official pressrelease confirming that Windows Vista is on target to go into broad consumer beta in the second quarter of 2006. Business availability will be in November 2006 and broad consumer availability in January 2007.
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March 14th, 2006

Vista in october or november?

Everybody keeps guessing the Vista release-date (including me), last time I checked Microsoft would release Vista in the week of 2 October. A while back I wrote about a possible releasedate on December 1st and now it looks like its gonna be November… So we now have covered the last three months of 2006, anybody […]

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February 10th, 2006

Vista release on December 1st?

Or it may also be November 30th… Thomas has taken a look at the page source of the Vista launchcontest. After you submit a date, it plays a “hint” video, there are a bunch of videos. And depending on your guess, they are being loaded either from a subdirectory /early/ or another one named /late/.
It […]

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