I want to inquire that when the complete version of windows vista is going to be out
And when the new office 2006 is coming to the market
How much space will vista need to get installed on a drive
and will it only support the ntfs file system
as i tried to install the beta verison and it asked me that it can not be run on fat32 or simply fat it can only be run on the ntfs file system
TThx for the replies
MASHAM SHEIKh

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Vista release date: 7 December 2006?

A present for the 'holiday season'
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By Jo Best

Published: Wednesday 31 August 2005

Rumour has it the official release date has already been decided for Windows Vista - and you can expect it to be ready in time to make an appearance late next year.

According to a report by Windows IT Pro, the official date for a full Vista release will be 7 December 2006, with the second beta of the product being released to testers late this year.

The report, which claims to be based on "very recent internal Microsoft documentation", said the first release candidate of the operating system, RC0, will appear on 19 April next year, with the second release candidate due on 28 June 2006.

Vista will then be released to manufacturing on 9 August. The first beta of Vista has already made it to testers, after making its appearance in late July.

Microsoft has previously refused to put a date on the eventual arrival of Vista, né Longhorn, which has already seen its release data slip. Back in 2002, Bill Gates announced the successor to XP would be ready in 2005, while an early version of Vista first appeared in 2003.

Currently, the official line from the software behemoth is that the operating system will be seen generally in late 2006. Microsoft, however, refused to confirm or deny whether the 7 December date is correct.

A Microsoft spokeswoman said: "We expect Windows Vista to be broadly available in all channels - as retail, full-packaged product and on new PCs - in the second half of 2006.

"Our timeline is driven by the quality of the product. When we feel the product has effectively incorporated the consumer feedback we receive during the beta process, we will release the final product. At this point, we are on track for general availability of Windows Vista in the second half of 2006 or the holiday timeframe."

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Microsoft France exposes Vista release date

Latest OS ready no later than October 2006
Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 31 Aug 2005
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Microsoft has revealed the projected release dates of Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 in a phone conversation with vnunet.com's French sister publication SVM, the publication claims.

"Beta 2 of Windows Vista, Microsoft's future operating system, is slated for release in the first week of December 2005 at best," a posting dated 29 August said. "The final release has been pushed back until September or October 2006."

Beta 2 of IE 7 is set for September 2005 followed by the release of the final version in December, the story continues. The product launch will coincide with Vista beta 2. Vista beta 1 was released to testers in July.

A spokeswoman at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond would neither confirm nor deny the report.

"At this time we have nothing to announce in regards to timing," she said. " When we feel that the product has effectively incorporated the customer feedback we receive during the beta process, we will release the final product."

Microsoft had not previously announced a projected release date for the beta versions of Internet Explorer or Vista beta 2.

The software firm had set the release of the final version of IE7 no later than the summer of 2006 and promised that Vista would be finished in time for the 2006 holiday shopping season.

Etienne Thierry, author of the French article, attributed the information to Microsoft France, but did not publish the source's name.

The story is supported by another report, claiming to be based on internal Microsoft documents, that sets the release of Vista beta 2 for 7 December 2005. It predicts a full release date of 15 November 2006.

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