Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Oct 2006 14:14 UTC
Microsoft has revealed a general release date for its upcoming operating system Vista - 5 December, 2006. Speaking to IT professionals, parliamentarians and senior law-enforcement officers at the Parliament and Internet conference in London on Thursday, Microsoft revealed its release plans. "We will officially launch Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 on 5 December," said David Hipwell, a Windows client sales professional at Microsoft. On a very, very related note, the EC says that Vista will not be delayed due to regulatory issues. Also, the Shell: Revealed weblog has an item explaining why Aero Basic looks the way it looks. Update: ZDNet has removed the release date story, and since they are being rude by not offering an explanation, I have no idea what is going on.
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2005-11-11
They're calling the titlebar the caption now? :boggle:
(note the smiley please)
Really fascinating the compromises they had to reach with Aero Basic. Fortunately, I don't seem too many people using Aero Basic by choice. If you want the candy, go with glass, otherwise classic is just fine. Of course there will be folks with older hardware who like Aero and will have to use Basic. Then again, according to the article, any app that tries to draw its own "caption" button will revert to Aero Basic, so people will see it one way or another. I guess it didn't come out too bad. having the two aeros look slightly different is the price MS pays for breaking with the past and moving forward I suppose.
An interesting change to see the release moved up. One wonders if the last delay announcement was real, or simply an a way to be able to "move things up" later