Good to know MICHAEL thanks.
I was hoping for sooner since 5384 which was running just fine at first has
now slowed to a C R A W L and is practically unusable, but will just have to
wait I guess and hope RC1 is much improved.
dotcom
"MICHAEL" <u158627_emr@dslr.net> wrote in message
news:OwuVagIwGHA.3964@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 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
>
>