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Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Chadk — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:21:49 GMT

I have been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Gratz Jim - you did a great job!

posted by Chadk

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

littleguru — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:27:20 GMT

Great news! Downloading right now.
We have been waiting so long for this to happen...

posted by littleguru

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Charles — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:47:15 GMT

Agreed. Thank you, Jim and Windows team.

Vista is the greatest version of Windows to date and you should all be incredibly proud of the real innovations you've shipped today.

Cheers,
C

posted by Charles

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

AnXa — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:56:08 GMT

Wow, Thanks Jim! I'm watching the video now.

I want to thank every person related to Vista development for their hard work!

posted by AnXa

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

typemismatch — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:57:47 GMT

Great job guys - post the party pics when you all recover!

posted by typemismatch

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Sabot — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:07:34 GMT

Nice one guys! Enjoy the party!

I can't wait to get my grubby paws on it ... I have a brand spanking new machine ready to go ...

posted by Sabot

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Rory — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:12:56 GMT

Kevin Daly wrote:

I haven't had time to watch the video yet (it's Thursday morning here and time to leave for work), but congratulations to Jim and everyone involved.

I can't wait for it to hit MSDN (the weekend sometime maybe?) so I can get my hot little hands on it at last, I have new PC primed and waiting

My new machine is still two weeks out

But, in the meantime, I have a fairly recent build running on one machine, and the RTM build installed on my Toshiba m400 tablet.

I'm really impressed by the m400's performance with Vista. It has the really crappy integrated Intel graphics, yet it still does Aero Glass.

Pretty cool.

I like to think that it gives everybody hope. If my tablet with that garbage graphics chipset can do Aero Glass, then the bar isn't all that high.

posted by Rory

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

JohnAskew — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:26:05 GMT

littleguru wrote:

Great news! Downloading right now.
We have been waiting so long for this to happen...

From Connect or where?

posted by JohnAskew

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Volkan — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:27:30 GMT

Congratulations to everyone who worked hard on Vista over the years!

posted by Volkan

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Rory — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:48:24 GMT

JohnAskew wrote:

littleguru wrote: Great news! Downloading right now.
We have been waiting so long for this to happen...

From Connect or where?

Just guessing, but I think he was referring to the video

posted by Rory

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

JohnAskew — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:01:25 GMT

Rory wrote:

JohnAskew wrote:

littleguru wrote: Great news! Downloading right now.
We have been waiting so long for this to happen...

From Connect or where?

Just guessing, but I think he was referring to the video

Thanks, I'm too excited to think straight.

posted by JohnAskew

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

figuerres — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:54:01 GMT

Rory wrote:

JohnAskew wrote:

littleguru wrote: Great news! Downloading right now.
We have been waiting so long for this to happen...

From Connect or where?

Just guessing, but I think he was referring to the video

Nahh....

everyone has it now.... 133t H@x0rs have RTM'ed vista already

RTM - new meaning: Relased to the Masses

posted by figuerres

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

littleguru — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:54:18 GMT

Rory wrote:

JohnAskew wrote:

littleguru wrote: Great news! Downloading right now.
We have been waiting so long for this to happen...

From Connect or where?

Just guessing, but I think he was referring to the video

I would LOVE to download Vista. But it won't happen for a while.

posted by littleguru

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Rory — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:56:31 GMT

JohnAskew wrote:

Rory wrote:

JohnAskew wrote:

littleguru wrote: Great news! Downloading right now.
We have been waiting so long for this to happen...

From Connect or where?

Just guessing, but I think he was referring to the video

Thanks, I'm too excited to think straight.

As well you should be - one of the bonuses of working on campus (as opposed to being out in the field) is that I was here for RTM, and I'm writing to you from an RTM box (or at least close enough that it doesn't matter).

And it's good stuff.

posted by Rory

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

raymond — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:04:09 GMT

Congratulations to the Windows Vista team for their great efforts.

Thank you for supporting the Channel 9 Community.

posted by raymond

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

fdezjose — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:24:12 GMT

Congratulations Jim and ALL the Windows Team. I can't wait until January 30th and get the retail version. It's been fun following Vista's developement.
Do you people remember the first builds that were leaked? 54015, 4029, 4051... That good old Longhorn...

Great job!

posted by fdezjose

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Kevin Daly — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:55:53 GMT

I haven't had time to watch the video yet (it's Thursday morning here and time to leave for work), but congratulations to Jim and everyone involved.

I can't wait for it to hit MSDN (the weekend sometime maybe?) so I can get my hot little hands on it at last, I have a new PC primed and waiting

posted by Kevin Daly

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Kevin Daly — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:40 GMT

Rory wrote:

As well you should be - one of the bonuses of working on campus (as opposed to being out in the field) is that I was here for RTM, and I'm writing to you from an RTM box (or at least close enough that it doesn't matter).

And it's good stuff.

I have a meeting with a couple of local Microsofties in about an hour...I feel very sorry for them having to be sober

On the tablet subject, I hope against hope that we'll see drivers for the (sadly and cruelly orphaned) HP TC1100 at some stage, since I have one from work that I'd love to upgrade eventually.

posted by Kevin Daly

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

iCe.NET — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:44:36 GMT

YAY!

posted by iCe.NET

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

DigitalDud — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:48:44 GMT

Congrats on the RTM guys!

Totally agree with Jim on the memory usage, 2+ gigs is the way to go.

posted by DigitalDud

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Rory — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:02:45 GMT

DigitalDud wrote:

Congrats on the RTM guys!

Totally agree with Jim on the memory usage, 2+ gigs is the way to go.

?

Depending on what you're doing.

My tablet has 1 gig on it, and it's doing just fine - that's running Photoshop and other such apps.

Would I rather have 2 gigs? I'd rather have 20.

But, if you've only got a gig, then you're fine. I think that the memory needs of Vista have been blown a bit out of proportion. It does require more than XP, and I wouldn't recommend running on 512 (unless you're just going to browse the web - but how many niners are going to be doing something that simple?), but a gig is sufficient.

posted by Rory

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

LaBomba — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:03:27 GMT

great guy, jim allchin.

nice interview.

congrats to the vista team on shipping!

posted by LaBomba

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

SecretSoftware — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:08:34 GMT

You did not ask him why he is retiring after windows ships?:O

posted by SecretSoftware

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

JohnAskew — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:21:15 GMT

"I believe in the transparency [of channel 9]".

Jim Allchin is a wise man. I'm glad to be a 9er and I believe in transparency also -- I think it is something that will help change our culture's landscape in a myriad of ways, and it's on a logarithmic curve right now.

I'm ready for Vista.

posted by JohnAskew

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Bydia — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:56:43 GMT

Where can we download the medical demo?
Online demos are great but would be nice if I could show my friends/ coworkers.

posted by Bydia

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

eddwo — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:50:29 GMT

Bydia wrote:

Where can we download the medical demo?
Online demos are great but would be nice if I could show my friends/ coworkers.

That would be here

posted by eddwo

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Lundberg — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:17:27 GMT

Nice video and great work! =)

posted by Lundberg

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Lon^ — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:37:15 GMT

I have to say that I found roughly the first half of the video quite unimpressive really with the GUI changes and Apps and stuff I mean I know its showing off these new APIs and things but if developers really wanted to they could implement these newsreaders etc.

The second half, wow! thats a totally different story and I am quite sad that it seemed the video seemed to finish just as we were getting to what vista IMO is really about. The performance monitoring is going to be sooo handy when things are chugging along and you have no idea why, and then there was the ready boost stuff which obviously only the OS can offer but then the real beast is that self repair system. That is something that really needs the OS to do it, I mean you have things from sysinternals but they dont automatically try and repair the system in clever ways like what was mentioned. I wouldnt agree entirely with "you have to be a magician to fix things" but I can see this is going to be immensly handy with all the spyware,viruses, dodgy drivers (the list goes on!) flying about these days. Good stuff!

posted by Lon^

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

damage-inc — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:13:53 GMT

Great interview!

I hope Jim sticks around Microsoft.

Charles you should talk to the folks who did the NY Times app or the contoso app.

posted by damage-inc

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Charles — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:16:08 GMT

damage-inc wrote:

Great interview!

I hope Jim sticks around Microsoft.

Charles you should talk to the folks who did the NY Times app or the contoso app.

Will do. I agree about Jim. He's one of our visionary leaders.....
C

posted by Charles

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

dahat — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:46:24 GMT

Maybe it’s just me, but Jim has always seemed like a more laid back and humble guy in comparison to Bill and Steve (at least on video) and so I’m even more thrilled about an interview with him... shame it’ll be the last until his band goes big time.

We'll miss ya Jim!

posted by dahat

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

staceyw — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:17:35 GMT

Nice job Jim. Rock on

posted by staceyw

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

rjdohnert — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:42:09 GMT

Happy retirement Jim

posted by rjdohnert

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

amotif — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:27:17 GMT

Nice interview.

Charles,

When you mention creating a Media Center add-in for C9, can I assume that you folks are planning on using Vista's RSS engine to download the C9 Videos feed (maybe Podcasts, too) and using the RSS engine's capability to automatically download the video file (background transfer via BITS, of course) and make that available for viewing?

Please?

Just an idea I've had.

posted by amotif

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Nick Manley — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:24:39 GMT

Congratulations on shipping!

I bet you've been waiting a long time for this moment. You guys work so hard and your efforts are so under appreciated. A friend of mine has RC2 on his computer and can hardly wait to get Vista in January. I hope you guys have a massive party to celebrate! Enjoy!

posted by Nick Manley

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

stunna — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:17:00 GMT

Does anyone know the specs on the laptop used in the video?

posted by stunna

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

earnshaw — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:51:15 GMT

Vista RTM is great! Congratulations. Now then...

One of the applications shown is "...absolutely trivial to do.", so where may one find the footnote that directs Developers to the one-pager that demonstrates how trivial it is?

Heck, I'd settle for directions to a 900 page book that demonstrates how trivial it is.

posted by earnshaw

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Boomport — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:33:20 GMT

I'll be greatful for Vista later after I have kicked the tires and drove it around the block (I own 2 copys of ME:( ).

Thank You for channel 9! Best thing Microsoft has done.

posted by Boomport

Re: Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM

Charles — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:56:24 GMT

amotif wrote:

Nice interview.

Charles,

When you mention creating a Media Center add-in for C9, can I assume that you folks are planning on using Vista's RSS engine to download the C9 Videos feed (maybe Podcasts, too) and using the RSS engine's capability to automatically download the video file (background transfer via BITS, of course) and make that available for viewing?

Please?

Just an idea I've had.

Erik or Sampy own this. I'd imagine they are thinking about smart synchronization of content... They can speak to this.
C

posted by Charles