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sometime in 2008 is my guess

What, no iPod for a prize?!?!?

Never.

How come no United States people are able to enter???

MDN Magic Word: "Really" as in "Is it REALLY going to be released?"

this could only mean they are moving ahead of previous expectations.

I reckon it's anybody's guess what the launch date will be for Vista, hence the contest.

Happy New Year everybody!

I will go with what ron said, NEVER it Microsoft they suck at everything they do,

October 8, 2003

The second to forth prizes also violate that article. No one should have to suffer a XBOX 360 crash.

To top that off, I must ask: are they asking the first versions to come out, the one for the commputer with new special feature comming out like 3 years after the original or the patch that'll make it a half-( ok, ok, quarter-) good operating system?

Ready or not.....more not... early August of 2006. In time for school. It will be an improvment.... How could it not.

Maybe Micro$oft just wants to know itself, hence the guessing game. Question though: Does anyone really give a shit ?

How about guessing when the first Vista virus will be made?

whoops too late already!!! HAHAHAHAHA!

http://news.com.com/First+potential+virus+risk+for+Windows+Vista+found/2100-7349_3-5819428.html

there's only one correct answer possible...

never! it will never ship!

how can i tell? well... since the most obvious that you should be able to win is:

Windows Vista!

and that is not listed... because they know it will never ship and therefor can't be offered as a price for the contest.

logic?

Just anooooother looooooong wait for the more reduce features of 'Long'horn

Might as well waiting for Leopord, the next upgrade of Tiger.

Just wondering, after Leopard, which cat comes next? Could it be Azlan, the Lion?

COMING UP NEXT:

Guess when the first VISTA virus will be released! Oops, trick question: there's some out already! Hey, Microsoft, here's an idea: hire the virus writers to write your next OS, maybe they'll be able to meet a deadline!

Yes! You heard it here first, folks! Guess the date (like we have ANY clue whatsoever) and we'll rush, rush, RUSH to get it finished- cutting whatever corners [we havn't cut already] and making YOU the first person to own the FIRST Windows Vista Box!!!!! Wow0ow0ow0ow0ow0wo! ThE tEnSiOn Is MoUnTiNgGgGg!

Cupertino, start your photocopiers (ha!)

wish Vista would hurry up, to prove the view is better from my skylight, at least the occaisional bird crap, is more decorative

Hey dont knock the operating system until you have tried it. I tried Windows 95, didn't like it. I tried Windows 98 didn't like it. I tried Windows Millennium, didn't like it. I tried Windows XP, didn't like it either. Then I tried Mac OS X and I liked it. Well whatever works for you, is what you should go with, and not knock anyone who seems to like a cheaper priced computer with a little hiccups and viruses. Some people like their girls the same way.

singin..."in the year 2525, in windows is still alive"

typhoon,

Interesting twist to the Zager & Evans tune (Exordium & Terminus).

Some of us (ol' geezers) get it.

MaWo: 'place'. As in, "Microsoft will eventually be put in theirs."

What goes up, must come down
Vista will suck and Gates is a clown

Is there anyway to guess the equivalent of $1 on "Price is Right"? That is, my guess would be "The day after the last (chronological) day guessed."

NEVER

Here is some useful info for future Vista users:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/viruses/default.mspx

Not much chance of winning - it could be anytime this millennium!

Does it really matter?

Never or too late

Once we know when Mac OS 10.5 ships, everyone should guess that date. That would show microsoft! What better than to flood their stupid poll with the release date of an OS that already has twice the features and will be available to the general public sooner?

What is an XBOX Core System?

Guess which day it is going to ship? Bill's having to have trouble guessing which century it will be release in!!!

Talk about taking a piss on yourself! They're asking for trouble with that one.

@petervrdk - wouldn't it have to be the booby prize anyway?

@dogfriend - I looked at the URL and where it says "/security/viruses/default.mspx", I read "security? viruses ARE default! ms pox!"

MDNMW = neither, as in "Windows or Vista?"

Hey, it already launched, but under an old name. Windows 98

This means one of two things:

1. MS EMEA now know what the launch date is.

or

2. MS EMEA do NOT know the launch date and are taking the piss out of head office.

My vote goes to the latter. I'll vote - Oct 12 2007. (That's what my Uncle Bill told me over Christmas lunch).

By the time of the launch of Windows Pasta enough people will have heard that OSX is already years ahead of it and will have, or planned to, switch anyway!

Vista = chicken in Romanian or turkey... depends upon how you translate it.



V = Viruses
I = Infections
S = Spyware
T = Trojan Horses
A = Adware

Yep, I want that in my computer and I am also dumb enough to pay an extra $35.00 USD a year to keep at least 50% of it put of my system. That makes perfect sense to me.

XBox Core system = a PowerPC - hmm, maybe an iMac...

MDN = North as in Olie North had better bull $hit in his testimony to Congress than M$ has in there press releases about Vista. (Howz that for a stretch. Happy 2006!!

So, MSFT's idea of a motivational prize is the opportunity to be liberally covered in Steve Ballmer's sweat.

And their idea of a second prize is the opportunity to win a games console with some "issues".

And the third prize is a the option to win the cut-down red-headed step-brother of the second prize.

Someone really ought to take their marketing department out for a long lunch prior to shooting them all in the back of the head and burying them in a mass grave.

Anyone else find it odd that none of the prizes included a full computer set up with the new Vista operating system in it?

Typhoon's song parody continued:
In the year 2525
Still won't have Vista, Gates ain't alive.
You'll get your system, and computer too.
From Apple's web page, set up just for you.

(BTW, great song hadn't thought if it in years.)

I'm guessing Feb 24th, 2007

Exactly 6 years after OSX 1.0 was released.

Hey, don't knock my hero Ollie. I knew I was gonna like that guy when Congress asked him why he shredded all those documents. His answer "I thought that's why the government put a shredder in my office" (or words to that effect).

6 'o clock on 6 june in 2006......the number of the beast LOL

consider what has hapened already:

http://media2.davesdaily.com/pictures3/412-windows-vista.jpg


MDN = methods as in, it is too lame to think of any prognostication methods to divine the pseudo-release date of VISTA.

Hey, my driver's license expires on 6/6/6! YIKES!!

...and 06hrs 66 mins (6:66) = 7:06 GMT.

It seems rather unscrupulous for a company that is in full control of the release date to make a contest for others to guess the release date. All they need to do is have a bunch of their friends be given the date in advance so they can win. I suppose that all of the winning entries will be gathered and a single winner drawn.

Regardless, it is a very poor marketing idea for a company and a product line that are infamous for delayed release dates. Shining a spotlight on your flaws is not a good idea. Stealing everything else, you'd think they would steal Steve's tactic of keeping everything highly secret and then create shock and awe when the product is fully ready.

It gets pretty bad when Microsoft can't even steal the good ideas, and can't see when an idea blatantly sucks. I'll bet they add Bush to their Board of Directors in 3 years; he'd fit right in.

An XBox "Core" system is the cheaper version of the 360. Leave it to Microshaft to have different versions of the same console out. I believe the core system has no HD, which means it can't play the old XBox games because it can't download the emulator. It lacks some other features too. From what I've read, people who buy the core system are throwing their money away even more than the people buy the high-end version of this lame-ass system.

1st Prize - 1 week in Redmond Wa.

2nd Prize - 2 weeks in Redmond Wa.

January 16th, 2018--I'll win!!!

BTW, great take, MDN

great take, MDN!

Isn't anyone who has ever used Windows part of the "Beta Experience Team"?

MW = before. As in, I'll be using an Apple nanobook before Vista ships!

Certainly the North American release party will also have many contests and games as well.

* See who can write the quickest virus for VISTA
* Best alternative name for "Podcast" contest

and my personal favorite:

* chair throwing contest

What a contest...

M$ doesn't even know when it will launch, which makes it most exciting!

From the article:
"Are you already a member of the Beta Experience campaign? Then you can get started right away."

Anybody who's ever used any version of Windows has been subjected to a beta experience.

"The official launch date of the new operating system Windows Vista has not yet been set. When will the final product be launched?"

HAHAHAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!

OMFG. Would ANY competent company in ANY industry make such a statement, especially with a crucial FLAGSHIP product?!?

The whistling sound you hear is MS's tailspin. MS is absolutely out of control.


PS: when Vista is cancelled, does everyone guessing "never" get to share a prize?

It absolutely constitutes cruel and unusual punishment a clear violation of Article 5 of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is a true violation.

9/11

Another national disaster!