Vista and Office: The WOW Starts Now!

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It's official! The consumer release of Windows Vista and Office 2007 will be celebrated in New York on January 29 at a launch event the software giant has dubbed "The WOW starts now." The invitation to "The "WOW starts now" event includes a note signed by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, in which he says that, "on January 29th, Microsoft will celebrate the launch of two amazing products that represent the culmination of a tremendous team effort."

Attendees will be treated to a celebratory lunch at Manhattan's famous Cipriani restaurant, followed by the actual launch event at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square later in the day.

Gates goes on to say that millions of people--Microsoft employees, developers, customers, bloggers, families, media, the entire industry--"have come together like never before and added their own individual imprints to help make Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office system the most tested products in Microsoft history."

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(1 reply) #1 Fubar on 04 Jan 2007 - 10:56

gah just hurry up and launch it to the public already , im sick of this site being turned into a massive vista bumming session :p it will flop thats my opinion (and Hope) so deal with it :p

#1.1 C_Guy on 04 Jan 2007 - 17:47

Look everyone, it's Debbie Downer!

#2 twistedddx on 04 Jan 2007 - 11:11

Minesweeper locks up often on Vista(of all things!!

.. Some good beta testing went on.

#3 BBinder on 04 Jan 2007 - 11:17

If you live in UK you can pre-order vista here retail or OEM

Windows Vista Ultimate 32 or 64bit OEM £135.11

OEM dispatch is 12/01/2007

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist....33&catid=20

#4 ramesees on 04 Jan 2007 - 11:31

Now that is a really healthy price for Vista

Much better than paying almost £350

(1 reply) #5 Justin on 04 Jan 2007 - 11:33

mmm, but don't you have to be a registered partner to use this and get the CD Keys? Ebuyer is offering a similar deal where you buy XP Pro and get Vista free but you can only get CD Keys for OEM Vista if you are a registered MS ~~Company~~ partner and are a company that can prove you build commercial systems.

#5.1 twistedddx on 04 Jan 2007 - 12:09

you need to buy a piece of hardware with it.

#6 Jon_Hart on 04 Jan 2007 - 11:34

Yeah the price for OEM Home Premium is much better than I thought. I've bought and installed OEM MCE2005 when building a system, so OEM Vista should be just as easy right? The price difference between OEM and retail is so huge I keep thinking there must be a catch.

--
Jon

P.S.
I bought MCE 2005 from the company mentioned, for around the same price too.

#7 naap51stang on 04 Jan 2007 - 13:20

Unless MS pays homeless or kids to stand in line, I don't see people standing in line
for this one.

#8 StarSabers on 04 Jan 2007 - 14:09

WOW, look at the driver compatibility!

Not really.

I'm getting it when it comes out, and I hope it doesn't work nothing like RC1 (I had rewrote the RC2 disk so I had to use RC1, which went into a blue screen loop with different errors each time, and the testing was over before I got my new PC to really test it on, anyway).

#9 gliscameria on 04 Jan 2007 - 21:28

Great. Now everyone gets to pay through the nose for a more bloated less useful version of software that hasn't improved in 6 years. I'm a sucker and keep buying the newer versions of office, but honestly the old crap version on WinME at work seem to do exactly what I ask them to, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Maybe I'm just getting set in my ways... eek.

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