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Windows Vista Goes Gold
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Windows Vista is on its way to the presses.
Microsoft announced today that Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing. Vista will mark the first big shift in Microsoft consumer operating systems in over 5 years.
With Vista, Microsoft promises increased security with an improved firewall and Windows Defender and User Account Control. Other fresh additions include integrated desktop search, Internet Explorer 7.0, Windows Sidebar, Windows Sideshow, built-in system diagnostics, improved gaming support, fully integrated Speech Recognition as well as support for Windows SuperFetch, Windows ReadyBoost and Windows ReadyDrive.
Vista won't be available to the general public until Jan 30, 2007. Pricing info on the various versions can also be read from here.
Posted by: pdnielsen
Yike! $400 for the full version of the Ultimate Edition. It looks like their pricing is just begging for piracy! You'd think after all the experience with previous versions that Microsoft would learn a lesson or two. Looks like they haven't learned a thing.
Posted by: redwench
sure they have. they have learned how to gouge consumers.
Posted by: khmerxkid781
Windows vista "boxes" remind me of the happy meals at mc donalds.
Posted by: shadysoldier
their boxes look like xbox 360s!
Posted by: Blackknight
I like the new boxes. The Ultimate one has some nice pizazz to it. They are a lot more aesthetically interesting than say:
http://news.com.com/i/ne/en/2001/10/xp/xp_boxshot.jpg
And $400 for a full version is ludicrous. I don't think I will be updating to Vista anytime soon.
Posted by: pdnielsen
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Originally Posted by redwench
sure they have. they have learned how to gouge consumers.
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They already knew that!
Posted by: etechsupport
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Originally Posted by pdnielsen
Yike! $400 for the full version of the Ultimate Edition. It looks like their pricing is just begging for piracy! You'd think after all the experience with previous versions that Microsoft would learn a lesson or two. Looks like they haven't learned a thing.
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Yep, Also unlike XP, Vista to be reloaded once, if users want to put vista on another machine they have to pay another $400, its seem crazy to me. That is the reason they are themselves pushing their customers to other OS.
Posted by: shadysoldier
microsoft signed a paper so that compusa will start selling vista business very very soon.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
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Originally Posted by etechsupport
Yep, Also unlike XP, Vista to be reloaded once, if users want to put vista on another machine they have to pay another $400, its seem crazy to me. That is the reason they are themselves pushing their customers to other OS.
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Actually because of all the backlash, Vistas licensing has been changed to be more like XP's is.
Posted by: pdnielsen
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Originally Posted by Ion Silverbolt
Actually because of all the backlash, Vistas licensing has been changed to be more like XP's is.
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Then perhaps we can look forward to making copies of our original disks and destributing Vista to all our friends - just like with XP. Or worse, to finding all types of pirated copies on the net.
Posted by: etechsupport
By security reason how I forget that its still "window" ? 
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