Robin Paardekam

.NET Newbie - Silverlight, Sharepoint, AJAX and C#.

Vista Sidebar Gadget - Countdown to "2008 Global Launch Wave"

Get this gadget for Vista Sidebar...

I just came across this nice little gadget that Microsoft offers to be used on your Vista desktop. It counts down the number of days until the "2008 Global Launch Wave" which will start on wednesday February 27th 2008. Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 will then all be launched. Considering the fact that they came up with this gadget themselves, they must be pretty sure about this date. :)

You can download this gadget here. Note that the actual gadget will indeed refresh the counter, as the image in this blogpost will not.

Posted: Wed, Jul 25 2007 8:37 AM by Robin Paardekam | with 2 comment(s)
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Carlo Poli said:

Well, they can be sure about the launch date, because that's when it's launched. The actual shipdate (which for most of us is the only relevant date) is another issue, it can be before or after the launch ;-).

The last time Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 were launched on the same day as well, but they all shipped on different dates.

# July 25, 2007 1:13 PM

Robin Paardekam said:

You're right about that... a "2008 Global Ship Wave" would perhaps be more interesting. :)

But do you think there's a big gap between launchdate and shipdate? As soon as it's launched, won't it be available for all MSDN-subscribers?

# July 25, 2007 2:51 PM
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