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Windows Vista will be released December 1st

Hey check this Windows Vista competition out, it’s a competition were you can try and guess the launch date of windows vista, I’ve included below a post from Thomas in which he posts his thoughts about the release date.

Or November 30th. How do I know? Well, Microsoft EMEA has put up a website where you can guess the launch date for Windows Vista. After you submit a date, it plays a hint video. There’s actually a bunch of videos, some of which are quite funny. Anyway, here comes the interesting part: If you take a look at the page source, the videos are hosted on a Microsoft server in Switzerland. And depending on your guess, they are being loaded either from a subdirectory /early/ or another one named /late/.

By simple iteration I quickly found that early ends Nov 30th while late starts Dec 1st. So either one of these will be the launch date. If this all is not a dirty little trick from the webmaster, of course…

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Source: teezeh dot info

3 thoughts on “Windows Vista will be released December 1st

andrew247 February 8, 2006 at 5:23 pm

I think I might go have a shot 🙂
Are there any prizes if you guess correctly?

Darren Straight February 8, 2006 at 5:55 pm

Yeah!

1st Prize: Trip for one person to the official launch event of Windows Vista, return flight, economy class, 3 nights in a 4-star hotel (breakfast included) and the entry to the launch event
2nd–4th Prize: New XBOX 360
5th–10th Prize: XBOX Core System

Good luck! 🙂

andrew247 February 8, 2006 at 6:55 pm

Woaw…I’m off to guess!

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