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It’s official: Vista and Office 2007 to launch November 30

Time: 02:39 EST/07:39 GMT | News Source: IT Wire | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

The Windows Vista journey is about to reach the end of the beginning, with the official launch date of November 30 announced for the simultaneous launch of Office 2007 and the business version of Windows Vista.

A Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed that the planned release dates for Vista and Office are indeed November 30 after all, fulfilling Microsoft’s promise of delivering Vista in 2006.

That said, the general consumer versions of Vista are still planned for a January 2007 release, with the rumoured date of January 30 said to be on the verge of confirmation over the next few days.

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#1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:39:17 AM

This is all nonsense. Nobody in business will be deploying this just before Christmas. Most businesses won't even look at Vista until 2008. They won't upgrade what already works and is already paid for just because MS says so. This is all a ploy so that MS can claim it delivered Vista in 2006 when they'll take the extra 2 months to polish as much as they can for the *real* release in 2007.

#2 By 61 (71.251.77.231) at Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:47:04 AM

Latch, there are customers out there that will get free upgrades (software assurance), not only that, but business that are going to at least eventually deploy it do need time to test it.
And actually, a lot of companies will upgrade just because Microsoft said so (These are the companies that always do the early adopter <insert new Microsoft product here> success stories.

What's rediculous is how you seem to be getting all worked up about an OS release, like you've been hurt or something.

#3 By 16797 (142.46.227.65) at Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:02:00 PM

#1 I agree, your post is "all nonsense."

If it is 2006, you complain (it is not finished!!!!).
If it is 2007, you complain again (it is late!!!!).

And yet you say most businesses won't even touch Vista till 2008.

Even if it's only 2 (or 3) months difference, you complain, even though you say nobody will be deploying it just before Christmas.

And on top of that all, you say Windows (XP) already works.

This post was edited by gonzo on Thursday, November 02, 2006 at 12:02.

#4 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:22:32 PM

#1--my guess is that the Vista and Office teams will be given somewhat of a breather over the holidays, and it will be the IHVs and ISVs that will be busy readying hardware, drivers, and software.

Many businesses may not upgrade until 2008 (though you can be sure they'll be testing before that). But that's what they always do--they said that at essentially every Windows launch. The reality for most businesses is that they upgrade the OS as they refresh desktops on their regular refresh cycle. So... your point is?

#5 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at Thursday, November 02, 2006 01:06:14 PM

We and two clients have completed testing and will roll it Dec 01 at midnight. SMB's who have waited until now, will move during DEC and take advantage of employee leave, holiday schedules and time to train staff. Many participated in familiarization training for Vista and IE 7 in October and tests on applications were completed last week.

Yes, not all, or even many will move quickly, but those that have tested and waited on new custom applications development will move as quickly as possible. Many of our customers have waited to take on new apps development in order to leverage what Vista has to offer to developers. Many others want to move for reasons of KB - or knowledge management and they are more interested in integration that provides for more democratized networks that support better compliance - while preserving user experience levels and independence - this is a big issue in our market and UI sweetness aside, Vista and its fleet of servers and tools provide for it. Collaboration - subject to compliance and individual user independence is the set people in our market are looking for. Aging PC's and these needs have driven new orders through the roof. We have been quoting and receiving PO's out the wazoo and we are very much looking forward to being able to offer significant enhancements in our model as it regards remote management and monitoring [SCE], far better and more unified communications [E2K7, LCS], and much richer collaboration [Office 2007, WSS3, SPS2K7 and RMS]. "Document Repositories" alone are driving legal and financial services clients toward Vista and Office 2007 - hot issues for each client type.

#6 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at Thursday, November 02, 2006 01:21:03 PM

Latch's "insight" into what businesses will do comes from "managing" his PIII-500 hand me down computer that the coffee girl is assigned.

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