Ina Fried at CNET has the story:
Microsoft plans to mark the business launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 with an event in New York on Nov. 30.
Microsoft also plans to launch Exchange 2007 at the “New Day for Business” event, to be held at the Nasdaq stock exchange and starring CEO Steve Ballmer. “This event will mark the business availability of three major releases from Microsoft,” the software maker said in an invitation e-mailed to a set of journalists on Wednesday.
They sure couldn’t cut the promise of Vista in November much closer. As for my informal poll asking “Will Windows Vista Launch in November,” the results currently are:
Looks like the Delphi method comes through, although to be completely precise, it’s not over until Steve Ballmer arrives at the NASDAQ podium and says the magic words.
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| « Nov | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |||
November 5th, 2006 at 6:16 PM
[...] Expect availability to OEMs, businesses with volume purchase agreements, and MSDN subscribers to follow in very short order as there’s no point in delaying until the November 30 USA launch event (Nov. 23 in Canada). Filed under OS - Client, Windows Vista, Microsoft [...]
November 10th, 2006 at 9:37 AM
[...] Office 2007 has RTMed, Windows Vista has RTMed, and now comes word from Peter Galli at Microsoft Watch on the release to manufacturing of Exchange Server 2007, the third product that will be launched on Nov. 30: Exchange Server 2007 will be released to manufacturing in December and be available to customers within a number of days after that, Microsoft officials have confirmed. [...]