Windows Vista

[Heeter]

Like, how do you get to know about conferences, attend them, etc.

I want inside scoop info!

Cause Nets is ubercool and supersmart. That's why. He knows Bill on a first name basis.

Heeter

 

[lancer]

ACTUALLY. it was not atlanta but thailand, and god damnit, but i cannot find the news article i read that in today to back it up, i either read it on the bbc news site or abc news site.

 

[madmatt]

Thank God for Dave Cutler.

You said it.

 

[NetRyder]

ACTUALLY. it was not atlanta but thailand, and god damnit, but i cannot find the news article i read that in today to back it up, i either read it on the bbc news site or abc news site.

They were wrong then. The PressPass page was just updated with the info:

Brian Valentine, Senior Vice President, Windows Core Operating System Division and Kevin Johnson, Group Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Services announce Windows Vista at the Microsoft Global Business Conference (MGB) in Atlanta, Ga., on Friday, July 22, 2005.

 

[lancer]

possibly, as i cant remember where i read it i'll defer to your infinite wisdom oh master overseer

 

[NetRyder]

possibly, as i cant remember where i read it i'll defer to your infinite wisdom oh master overseer

Hahaha, well...you can't argue with an official press release now, can you?

 

[celticfan11]

Now i will just have to await for the Aug 3rd beta to leak out.

 

[Hsn]

Vista is the name of the community I live in, so yeah, it sounds pretty weird. Longhorn sounds "cooler" than Vista, though.

 

[kcnychief]

Vista is the name of the community I live in, so yeah, it sounds pretty weird. Longhorn sounds "cooler" than Vista, though.

Hmm...I live in Springfield. I'm going to release a version of Windows called

Microsoft Springfield!

 

[VenomXt]

if it stayed loghorn we would never hear the end from UT in Austin

 

[napalmnthemorning]

Vista.. VISTA....vista....vIsTa.......?

My initial reaction___ YUCK! I guess it will grow and it doesn't really matter. I agree with Admiral Michael on this one and like Longhorn much better. I also would of thought it would of been an acronym like NetRyder mentioned. By the way NetRyder have you heard how many bugs they are down to. I didn't see anything over at Paul's site.

 

[NetRyder]

By the way NetRyder have you heard how many bugs they are down to. I didn't see anything over at Paul's site.

I don't really know, and with the number of teams involved in the overall project, it's difficult to get a count from anyone I know.
Are you talking about beta 1 blockers, or bugs that need to be resolved by RTM, by the way? If you're talking about beta 1 blockers, I'd imagine the number would be pretty low by now, given the official projected date of August 3rd.

 

[Johnny]

I am wondering how long it will be before M$ starts to force people to switch to "Vista". I think the name is stupid, they should have thought of a better one. Maybe even had a contest or something. You would think that since some of the smartest people in the world work for M$ they could think of a better one.

Anyhow, I will be getting it as soon as it comes out. I can't wait. My main concern is the incompatibilities they will have. Similar to what it was like when XP came out. Also not to mention the 60 critical updates they had in the first week of release alone.

And --- I LOVE MICROSOFT also. If I could just make a profit off their stock I would be happy lol ..

 

[Steevo]

Thank God for Dave Cutler.

LMFAO


Quote taken form IRC


"I'm gonna have it dual boot to Windoes ME, so if the police get in I can boot to it and they will be like "WTF???" not even worth it"


ME was a turd.



I was on for XP Beta, and some of the wierd issues caused me to rethink the beta testing for free. No thanks. I still like my halfway hacked XP beta though, it runs quicker and identifies as Pro in many areas.

And as for hte name, most of us are not idiots like the majority of people who use a PC and "Vista" inspires great things in minds. I just hope it delivers, but from the sound of it, it will be a bloated piece, and have many features for the few and few features for the many.

But then again, what do I know.:dead:

 

[apu95]

Vista? Wtf...I know it'll grow on me, but for now...*barf*
So if I translate from spanish, it would be "Windows View". Que mierda lol.
I liked Longhorn better *runs*

 

[napalmnthemorning]

Are you talking about beta 1 blockers, or bugs that need to be resolved by RTM, by the way? If you're talking about beta 1 blockers, I'd imagine the number would be pretty low by now, given the official projected date of August 3rd.

I was thinking of beta 1 NR.

By the way. After I first read this news today and went out of town, ran a couple miles and then starting thinking some more about "Vista".. I've become more angry about such a nasty name. Then I picked up the phone book and looked up how many apartments, suburban housing projects and businesses had the name "vista" in it. Over 15 just in my googy city of 200,000. Holy Cow is it too late to start up a petition. Yuck again. I'm sorry guys, that name just really sucks.

 

[Electronic Punk]

Well been playing and learning about it all day and I am really looking forward to beta1's release so I can tell you some of what I learnt, most of today's stuff was under nda, but when they brought the xbox 360 and let us play with that for a little while, that wasn't

 

[napalmnthemorning]

Well been playing and learning about it all day and I am really looking forward to beta1's release so I can tell you some of what I learnt, most of today's stuff was under nda, but when they brought the xbox 360 and let us play with that for a little while, that wasn't

What was your initial reaction to the name EP. Be honest now you won't hurt your buddies feelings at MS.

 

[napalmnthemorning]

New Windows Vista logo :laugh:

 

[Electronic Punk]

Well Bob from Activewin told us he was about to post it first (having checked Paul Therrots personal blog) then went for a shower. meanwhile alot of us were sat in Ryan from bink.nu's hotel room as he has wireless and the lot of us - steve from tweakxp - neobond from neowin - bink from bink and I was the first to look at whois.net and find that mswindowsvista.us was owned by ms. We all thought Ahh!! -- at dinner ms were obviously trying to play it down poorly, tho we should have taken their bet.

Over the day it has grown on me and half the guys at ms kept saying longhorn which means that they have to now pay 25c each time they do , its pretty cool. Windows 7 was one of the potential names apparently.

It has grown on me already, I also have the last ever Longhorn freebies and the first ever Vista freebies (fresh from fedex) so am happy (hat and a cool poster that they had only just got round the building)

Anyway, I won't say too much more as it is all on a very fine line, but I will hopefully have some big post to make once beta1 is released to testers.