Windows Vista RTM
Wednesday 8th November, 2006 23:54 Comments: 0
The anticipation has been enormous, and now it's finally upon us. For those of you who don't know, RTM means Release To Manufacturing - basically when a product is ready to be shipped to industry partners for integration with their own line of products. Office 2007 RTM arrived the other day, so I knew it wouldn't be long until Vista was out.
The codebase has been extremely stable for a while now and we've been happy to make minor tweaks where appropriate - until now! The final code was signed off in the last hour. - (8th November 2006 19:00 GMT)
Manufacturing will be receiving it very soon
Volume Licensing Customers will be receiving it before the end of November
Vista is available on the January 30th for public customers
So normal folk have to wait a while. I think I'm going to live Vista, even if it does take me a while to get used to it. It's started to grow on me when testing in VMWare, I'm sure I'll be swayed once I see more of Aero (the shiny new interface) in action.
I had hoped to use a really nice looking image that I saw on Sandi's website but a) she doesn't like inline linking (quite understandable when large sites do it) and b) she's put bloody big red text all over it. I couldn't find the original images, only the last one of the Vista Ultimate box when it's open, so I very quickly created one based on the presspack images instead. It still looks quite nice though.
The codebase has been extremely stable for a while now and we've been happy to make minor tweaks where appropriate - until now! The final code was signed off in the last hour. - (8th November 2006 19:00 GMT)
Manufacturing will be receiving it very soon
Volume Licensing Customers will be receiving it before the end of November
Vista is available on the January 30th for public customers
So normal folk have to wait a while. I think I'm going to live Vista, even if it does take me a while to get used to it. It's started to grow on me when testing in VMWare, I'm sure I'll be swayed once I see more of Aero (the shiny new interface) in action.
I had hoped to use a really nice looking image that I saw on Sandi's website but a) she doesn't like inline linking (quite understandable when large sites do it) and b) she's put bloody big red text all over it. I couldn't find the original images, only the last one of the Vista Ultimate box when it's open, so I very quickly created one based on the presspack images instead. It still looks quite nice though.