Wow Starts January 29: Microsoft Sets Vista Consumer Launch

Microsoft will officially launch Windows Vista and Microsoft Office
2007 System for consumers at a special event in Times Square in New
York on January 29 called "Wow Starts Now." At the event, Microsoft
and its partners will promote Vista, Office 2007, and related
products.

"On January 29, Microsoft will celebrate the launch of two amazing
products that represent the culmination of a tremendous team effort,"
an email message from Microsoft reads. "Millions of people--Microsoft
employees, developers, valued customers, bloggers, families, media,
the entire industry--have come together like never before and added
their own individual imprints to help make Vista and Office 2007 the
most tested products in Microsoft history."

The January 29 event apparently includes a lunch reception, then a
launch celebration. "Our celebration is dedicated to the millions of
people who helped transform the operating system into a rich
experience that's more exciting and more powerful than ever before,"
the email reads.

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"Wow" is a whole day earlier than expected.

Wow.

mwrisner December 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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"...Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office system the most tested products in Microsoft history."

Put a colon between "system" and "the", and you have a great promo line for the product's packaging.

*yawn*

lotsamystuff December 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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Lotsa: hahaha. It has to be in one of those many-pointed callout stars, though.

I think the slogan is poor. "Wow starts Now." I think it would have been much more fun for Microsoft to take a bite out of Apple. Something like, "Introducing Leopard" or "Cupertino start your whining" or "Windows Vista: Turtleneck sold separately"

I mean, I understand that the average person won't get any of the jokes, but then again, the average person doesn't care about Vista anyway. They just should have made it a little fun. As it is, the slogan reeks of "our marketing team of 50-somethings came up with this at 3:00pm around a conference table."

bdkjones December 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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Here they come out of the woodwork. Do you just hang around Windows sites so you can tell everybody how much you hate Microsoft. Why don't you just get a life. Yes a lot of people are interested in Vista coming out. Perhaps you can see a doctor about your mental disorder

Moosehouse December 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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Wow started in 2001 when OSX came out and 5% of the world was experiencing it.

Over 5 years later, the other 95% get to experience a diluted, insecure, sloppily-copied version of it called Windows Vista.

So, yay, world. Be sure to subscribe to OneCare. Vista's backwards-compatible with viruses from 2004.

vandil2 December 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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"Yes a lot of people are interested in Vista coming out. Perhaps you can see a doctor about your mental disorder"

I tried to see my doctor, but the line was too long--seems the office was populated with people interested in Vista coming out. They took those cases first, because clearly they needed the most help.

lotsamystuff December 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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"I tried to see my doctor, but the line was too long--seems the office was populated with people interested in Vista coming out."

You mean Jobs and co? They do need help man. They're obsessed with Microsoft and Vista.

shark47 December 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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Microsoft copies Apple so much, you'd expect them to copy OSX's top-notch UNIX security model.

Hmm.. Perhaps that's why Microsoft is working with Novell's SUSE Linux. Perhaps the next, post-Vista version of Windows will be based around the Linux security model.

vandil2 December 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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"Perhaps the next, post-Vista version of Windows will be based around the Linux security model."

You mean where people would have to compile their own viruses?

Here we go: The same old arguments again and again and again.

We get it, ok? Vista bad. OS X good.

Hopefully Santa will will leave all you hardcore mac users a life under the tree on Monday.

sticknick December 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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bdk: obviously Microsoft won't stoop to Apple's level and say something negative about them. and yet, their marketshare has never stooped as low as Apple's either.

"in 2001, OSX came out and 5% of the world was experiencing it."

vandil: and yet the same percentage of people are still using it, but they've had to pony up $556US to pay for updates to get to the current version.

"OSX's top-notch UNIX security model"

you mean Apple's "mashup" of FreeBSD and Mach? only an Apple user could create this "Frankenkernel". i'm sure the word "mashup" was first published by an iLife user in the Apple User Dictionary with a flowchart diagram of XNU. it's no wonder nobody wants to code for this POS.

Waethorn December 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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