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Well HAPPY BD then Kev!
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"Kevin Panzke" <KevinPanzke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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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
>>
>>
>>