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And, I am Very Disapointed that RC1 won't be coming out Today, because Today
is my 29th Birthday, Just FYI.

"MICHAEL" wrote:

> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/...182/93182.html
>
> According to sources at Microsoft, the company plans to ship Windows Vista Release Candidate 1
> (RC1) in early September. More important, perhaps, is that Microsoft still plans to release
> Vista to manufacturing by the end of October as previously planned, defying rumors that the
> company would delay Vista yet again.
> Although I'm not at liberty to divulge the full contents of the message, Microsoft has placed
> build 5520 into escrow as the RC1 of Vista. This build will be released to testers and the
> public after the Labor Day holiday in the United States, which falls this year on September 4.
> Currently, Microsoft expects to ship RC1 on or after September 7.
>
> Meanwhile, the release to manufacturing (RTM), or final, version of Vista is set for a
> September 2006 escrow and final release on or before October 25. We can expect a Longhorn
> Server Beta 3 release in first quarter 2007, an RC2 release in second quarter 2007, and the
> final release in the second half of 2007.
>
> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/...181/93181.html
>
> OneStat: Windows Continues to Dominate
> Microsoft's next-generation OS, Windows Vista, continues to be horribly late, but that hasn't
> stopped the current version, Windows XP, from dominating the OS market. Web analytics company
> OneStat.com says that XP is responsible for almost 87 percent of all Web usage, while all
> Windows versions combined account for 97 percent of Web usage.
>
>
> "Microsoft's Windows dominates the operating system market with a global usage share of 96.97
> percent," OneStat.com reports. "The leading operating system on the Web is Microsoft's Windows
> XP with a global usage share of 86.80 percent. Microsoft's Windows 2000 has a global usage
> share of 6.09 percent and is the second most popular OS on the Web."
>
>
> You read that right. Windows 2000 is the second most often used OS on the Web, with almost
> three times the usage share of all Macintosh versions combined. During an event keynote last
> week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was quick to point out that Mac OS X was "gaining market share," but
> Apple has made only concrete gains in very specific markets, such as "retail sales of notebook
> computers in the US." In reality, Mac OS X usage is still below 2.5 percent worldwide. Even the
> 8-year-old Windows 98, with 2.68 percent of the market, accounts for more users than OS X does.
>
>
> Many had expected Apple's recent successes with the dominant iPod MP3 player and the move to
> Macs that use Intel chips to increase the company's share of the OS market. That hasn't
> happened yet, although it still could: With Vista not scheduled for general availability until
> early 2007, Apple has an opening during which it can sell Mac OS X systems to Windows converts
> while pushing its next-generation OS, code-named Leopard.
>
>
> According to OneStat.com, the following are the most frequently used OSs on the Web in the
> world:
>
>
> 1. Windows XP - 86.80 percent
> 2. Windows 2000 - 6.09 percent
> 3. Windows 98 - 2.68 percent
> 4. Macintosh/ Macintosh Power PC - 2.47 percent
> 5. Windows Me - 1.09 percent
> 6. Linux - 0.36 percent
> 7. Windows NT - 0.24 percent
>
>
>
> --
> Michael
> ______
> "The trouble ain't that there is too many fools,
> but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
> - Mark Twain
>
>
>