8th November 2006 19:00 GMT
The anticipation has been enormous, and now it's finally upon us - Windows Vista RTM. For those of you who don't know, RTM means Release To Manufacturing - basically when a product is ready to be shipped to industry partners for integration with their own line of products.
The codebase has been extremely stable for a while now and we've been happy to make minor tweaks where appropriate - until now! The final code was signed off in the last hour.
We're shipping it!
Some quotes from Jim Allchin's announcement:
Hardware 50% more device driver coverage than Win XP at launch Quality built into Vista, the three main focus areas being: Performance More features to keep PC's running at optimum speed Reliability More testing than ever OS before 16 Technical Previews since Beta 1 60,000+ machines running Vista at Microsoft Feedback from beta testers was fantastic - thankyou 2x number of stress test then before Substantially more reliable than XP Security 3rd Parties involved to test security Largest outside testing ever done The biggest reason to run Windows Vista
Hardware
Quality built into Vista, the three main focus areas being:
More applications will run out of the box on Vista than with XP and Win 2000 when they released Brand new applications are coming from small and large software companies alike Nvidia DirectX 10 graphics card is shortly to be announced Office 2007 available to Volume Licensing customers this month
More applications will run out of the box on Vista than with XP and Win 2000 when they released
Brand new applications are coming from small and large software companies alike
Nvidia DirectX 10 graphics card is shortly to be announced
Office 2007 available to Volume Licensing customers this month
"This is a good day" - Congratulations to everyone involved!
Check out the Press Release here