Windows Vista Launches Tomorrow

For business customers that is...

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36047
from WinCustomize Forums

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista had finally reached "RTM" status, the point at which the code is declared done and ready for distribution and sale.  Part of the rollout plan for Vista was to release to business customers in advance of general retail availability.  Well, tomorrow, November 30th is that launch day!  Starting tomorrow, people (well, companies) will begin purchasing physical copies of Windows Vista as well as Office 2007.  What will happen once the operating system is released into the wild?  Will it explode onto the market, or just fizzle?  The next few weeks will be very interesting for Microsoft.

General public availability for Vista and Office 2007 is set for January 30th, 2007.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If I was manager of a company (or the CEO, head honcho, boss, whatever you call 'em) I wouldn't switch to Vista until the first service release. I'm curious, has Stardock switched, or planning to fully switch to Vista in the near future? I know some of you guys have been working with it almost full-time for a while now but it's not the same thing.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I don't know of anyone who has switched completely to Vista yet.  Many of us have secondary boxes with Vista running if we need to test anything (or in the case of our devs, for coding vista versions of our apps).

Of course Vista only went RTM a few weeks ago, and is just hitting corporate sales channels tomorrow, so things could change in the coming months.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
According to itworld.com, it looks like Vista will be pretty successful.

Up to 15 percent of PC users will move to Vista within the first year that the operating system is available. That would make it the fastest-moving operating system ever."


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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think that's the % of users that are expected to purchase new PCs from Jan 30th onward.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My company is migrating to Vista as our existing hardware rolls out of warranty. It should be slow and easy.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Rapid deployment scheme here. Should be good.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's always nice to see good news about your company:
IT services provider Getronics is another firm with a program aimed at assisting customers migrate to Vista and Office 2007. Getronics' approach calls for IT managers to attend an initial workshop.

"IT executives can then decide which steps to conduct with their own staff and which ones to assign to Getronics," the firm said. "The IT executive can select from business case development, Microsoft Operations Framework Assessment, (and) application testing to migration support."

Getronics, which has some 25,000 employees, said it plans to be practicing what it is preaching: the firm said it will adopt Vista and 2007 gradually during 2007.


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