Vista already to RTM?

Author: Brett Thomas
Published: 6th November 2006
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Office 2007 is going gold today. Rumour has it, Vista is joining it.

Office 2007 is going gold today. Rumour has it, Vista is joining it.

Back when we reported on the showstopper bug present in the RC2 version of Vista, we heard that the RTM date for the new OS would be moved out to November 8th. This two weeks was meant to allow a new build to be developed and tested rigorously in hopes of getting Vista to manufacturing in order for the deadline. It appears they may have finished up just a little early - rumour has it that the OS goes gold today.

This two days ahead of schedule means little in the way of meeting or losing deadlines, but it does say a lot about Microsoft's comfort with the code. Apparently, though, the boys in Redmond had an interesting extra hurdle to overcome with finishing the product. The power went out in Microsoft's Vista development labs on Friday night, preventing them from releasing a test build that evening. Who says being a coder can't be a little thrilling?

Monday is apparently an overall golden day for Microsoft - Office 2007 is going RTM today as well.

All of this has meant that the company will be able to stay true to its word of the software showing up to businesses on November 30th. Trial versions of Office will be available for download in the US and EU starting on December 1st. Both Office and Vista are still slated for their retail release on January 30th, 2007.

Have you got a thought on the releases? Looking forward to getting your mits on Office or Vista? Let us know in our forums.
Quote Tyinsar 6th November 2006, 15:26
Yay for MS, Any idea how long until ver _.1 / OSR2 / SE / SP2 / ... ?

Actually the one thing that might get me excited about Vista is finally running my 64bit CPU at 64bit.
Quote cpemma 6th November 2006, 15:35
You mean Vista will read the manual to us? That's really clever stuff, should cut a lot of the more stupid support calls. ;)
Quote MrFusion 6th November 2006, 15:45
I can't wait for the new version of office. I've been using the beta for a while now and really like it. I'll be a 1st adopter for this one. Before this beta I was still running Office 2000, never felt a reason to upgrade. As for Vista, I plan to play it safe and wait a bit. I'm sure I'll try it out once I have a reason to.
Quote jezmck 6th November 2006, 16:01
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an interesting extra hurtle
hurdle perhaps? :)
--fixed, thanks. Honest, I'm literate... - Da Dego

so how long until it's cracked?
or is that genuinely going to be difficult this time?

PS - had to look up 'RTM' though I knew what it meant. 'Going Gold' means something like an anniversary, or a special milestone, to me - is this a UK/USA thing?
Quote M4RTIN 6th November 2006, 16:01
dunno how true this is but when i was googling for drivers a few sources said oem's are only shipping 32 bit vista and retail is only 32 bit too, and to get 64 bit you need to mail in a coupon to microsoft.. if thats true does that still mean poor 64 bit driver support
Quote DougEdey 6th November 2006, 16:07
Going gold means that a master manufacturing disc has been produced, these normally look gold.

Its when something reaches a particular milestone that it goes platinum
Quote Warrior_Rocker 6th November 2006, 16:10
Not sure why everyone seems to be all caught up in when microsoft will release patches for its operating system in the future. Is not the delay in the release time trying to avoid a service pack or new version for at least a year or so.

The decsion to migrate to vista should not be based on when you think a service pack would be available. All hatred of microsoft aside. They have obviously put a great deal of work into this new operating system. I still have the Longhorn 4053 beta from early 2004. The operating system has come a long way since then.
Quote customh 6th November 2006, 16:36
For all thos ethat dont know what RTM means, its Ready to Market. I had to look it up too jazzle. oh, sweet! lol
Quote mclean007 6th November 2006, 16:53
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Originally Posted by customh
For all thos ethat dont know what RTM means, its Ready to Market. I had to look it up too jazzle. oh, sweet! lol
Or Release To Manufacturing, which I just had to check was valid as a result of you meddling kids </scooby-doo>
Quote customh 6th November 2006, 17:17
lol, same place i went.
Quote zr_ox 6th November 2006, 17:22
I have to say that this is the first MS OS thats really got my attention. I tried RC 1&2 and have been pretty impressed. However until I have a DX10 card and 64bit drivers for my other hardware, I will not be buying it.

Its also going to be the first OS since 98 that I buy, because the constant headache of serial changing and cracking does my head in.

I do still wonder however about the overall impact of all the fanciness on Game performance. You could improve XP's performance considerably disabling services, and tweaking the registry so I imagine it will be the same with Vista.
Quote DXR_13KE 6th November 2006, 21:19
this will be interesting, is it me or is MS a little nicer.......?
Quote eddtox 6th November 2006, 22:45
AMD Athlon XP 2800 @2.13 GHz, 512MB DDR, GeForce FX 5200, 86GB HDD

Do you think I'll be getting it? :P

-ed out
Quote Aankhen 7th November 2006, 01:50
Microsoft's Vista development labs had no power backup? :|
Quote Skill3d 7th November 2006, 09:29
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Originally Posted by Aankhen
Microsoft's Vista development labs had no power backup? :|


same thing I thought when reading :|
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