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Windows Vista in Numbers

One of the things Microsoft reiterated throughout Monday night's Vista launch was the amount of work and testing that went into Vista. Approximately 5 million beta testers checked out the OS to make sure everything ran smoothly. As far as drivers go, Vista comes with 1.5 million drivers out of the box, so the chances of your peripherals not being recognized are pretty slim. Release-wise, Vista is being rolled out in over 70 countries, 39,000 retail outlets, and thousands of OEMs. What does this all mean? Well, according to Microsoft it means there's no need to wait for that service pack. Vista should make everyone's life easier now. We're gonna take that with a grain of salt as we give Vista our own test run to see just how easier (or harder) it'll make life for us. – Louis Ramirez

3:09 AM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By Louis Ramirez
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DeadPlasmaCell at 03:29 AM on 01/30/07
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I'm liking the Windows coverage.. it's a nice change from all the Apple stuff.. and the colors are purdy.

/drools
s5 at 03:36 AM on 01/30/07
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I don't understand what the clearly out of place Corbis.com stock image in Gates's presentation has to do with what he's presenting.
protocl at 04:58 AM on 01/30/07
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from what giz tells me: M.S vista is nothing more than a market scheme....my 1st comp was in 1990, running D.O.S, but this isnt a surprise cause even though this "vista" has thousands of drivers and afew more details, whats more to up grade??? i mean, its all about the internet, pRon and all, hehehe...
protocl at 05:22 AM on 01/30/07
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i see an asian lady in this ad...does this mean that "asians" are hip? hehehe..
PJK at 06:12 AM on 01/30/07
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They are the master race, don't you watch survivor?
m3talsyr3n at 07:02 AM on 01/30/07
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Could someone please re-release MS-DOS? it worked, you could fix any problem easily.

I miss DOS.
lulabale at 07:20 AM on 01/30/07
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Let's say I have 10 peripherals. Does this mean that there are 1.499990 million drivers that I don't need?
Hoffen at 08:39 AM on 01/30/07
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60 Years performance testing?!! I really hope thats a cumulative number. Otherwise im really pissed at MS for holding out and making me suffer through windows 95... >:|
Thoth74 at 09:12 AM on 01/30/07
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Let's say I have 10 peripherals. Does this mean that there are 1.499990 million drivers that I don't need?

There always has to be one, eh? "Why can't they release a version of Windows with just the stuff I need?" E-mail them a list of the peripherals you would like to have drivers included for and tell them you want them to ship you a copy of Windows Lulabale. I am sure they will be completely amenable.
lulabale at 11:06 AM on 01/30/07
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Cool, thanks!
JacquesAss at 11:38 PM on 01/30/07
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60 years of performance testing? Unfortunately, 59 years were spent on WinFS, Virtual Folders, Palladium, SecureID tokens, the Monad CLI and EFI support.

Oops.