Apple in 2006. 1.5 year lead time on Windows Vista
"Windows Vista won?t be available for shipment until the last quarter of 2006, a Microsoft Corp. executive let slip in a presentation on Microsoft?s campus Thursday.
Microsoft had previously slated the release of the next client version of it Windows operating system (OS) for the second half of 2006. But at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Conference in Redmond, Washington, Thursday, Will Poole, senior vice president of the client division of Microsoft, said the OS would not be available until the 2006 ?holiday? time frame in the U.S.
This presumably would mean that the OS will not be available until sometime around the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, which is the last Thursday in November, or Christmas, which is Dec. 25."
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/07/28/vista/index.php
With the iBook and Mac Mini updates out of the way, and a consolidated iPod/Photo line joining the iPod Mini and iPod Shuffle, along with earlier updates to eMac, iMac g5 and PowerBook, it looks like Apple has got its product line up sorted out for this quarter (july, aug, sep).
Despite our misgivings and bickering, most people would agree with as a poster put it, everything 'Tigerised' and ready to go out of the box. Yes, the Mac Mini does not support vertex/fragment hardware coreimage but that's about it. Yes, the Mac Mini and iBooks have 4200rpm drives, but that's about it too.
So full steam ahead for 6 quarters, 1.5 years until the end of 2006 for the full rollout and evaluation of MacIntel transition.
What are your feelings on things at Cupertino?
Microsoft had previously slated the release of the next client version of it Windows operating system (OS) for the second half of 2006. But at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Conference in Redmond, Washington, Thursday, Will Poole, senior vice president of the client division of Microsoft, said the OS would not be available until the 2006 ?holiday? time frame in the U.S.
This presumably would mean that the OS will not be available until sometime around the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, which is the last Thursday in November, or Christmas, which is Dec. 25."
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/07/28/vista/index.php
With the iBook and Mac Mini updates out of the way, and a consolidated iPod/Photo line joining the iPod Mini and iPod Shuffle, along with earlier updates to eMac, iMac g5 and PowerBook, it looks like Apple has got its product line up sorted out for this quarter (july, aug, sep).
Despite our misgivings and bickering, most people would agree with as a poster put it, everything 'Tigerised' and ready to go out of the box. Yes, the Mac Mini does not support vertex/fragment hardware coreimage but that's about it. Yes, the Mac Mini and iBooks have 4200rpm drives, but that's about it too.
So full steam ahead for 6 quarters, 1.5 years until the end of 2006 for the full rollout and evaluation of MacIntel transition.
What are your feelings on things at Cupertino?