Windows Vista RC1 Released

Fri Sep 1, 2006 7:28PM EDT

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Despite calls by many for a third beta, Microsoft has hustled out "RC1" of Windows Vista, or Release Candidate 1. In theory that means that this version of the OS is a candidate for release: That it's so close to being finished that you might be able to sell it.

In reality, this means another few months of bug fixes, but technically the base features of Vista should now be stabilized.

Now the bad news: RC1 is not available to the public yet, but if you downloaded Beta 2 a few weeks ago, you will supposedly be eligible to receive it on disc or via download.

Given that it's only September 1, Microsoft certainly seems on track to have Vista on shelves in January 2007. How buggy it will be when that date arrives remains to be seen.

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  • 1 Posted by keren_navya on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:49PM EDT Report Abuse

    DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WINDOWS XP,AND WINDOWS VISTA?

  • 2 Posted by selenaverdi on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:12PM EDT Report Abuse

    IBM will not use Windows Vista - but will move to Linux desktops William Henning - Monday, March 6th, 2006 | 2:13PM (PST) IBM switching to Linux destops in Germany according to a Linux Forum 2006 presentation by their head of open source and Linux sales in Germany. Interesting news from LinuxForum 2006 During a presentation on IBM's involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, who heads open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM made a very interesting statement... "Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform. Not all at once - some will keep using their present Windows versions for a while. But none will upgrade to Vista." The question is, does this only apply to IBM in Germany, or IBM world wide? If ALL of IBM switches to Linux desktops and OpenOffice... that would be a very significant loss to Microsoft; not only in direct licensing revenues, but also in speeding adoption of Linux by other companies. After all, if IBM can run on Linux desktops... Source: LinuxForum Day 2 Please read, with patience, all the coments posted, about this matter, at the following URL: http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/5436/ [It seems that IBM Corp. has chosen "Hasta La Vista"!] The differences between Windows XP and Windows Vista? Yes; but what version of "Vista"?

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