Windows Vista News Batch – August 15th 2006.

From Paul Thurrott’s WinInformant

Exclusive: Microsoft Plan’s to Still Release Windows Vista in October

According to sources at Microsoft, the company plans to ship Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) in early September. More important, perhaps, is that Microsoft still plans to release Vista to manufacturing by the end of October as previously planned, defying rumors that the company would delay Vista yet again.

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From eWeek

Flash, Storage Vendors Eye Windows Vista

Reporter’s Notebook: Performance was the key topic at the recent Flash Memory Summit, as memory makers heard details of speedups for Windows Vista. To little surprise given the audience, the hard drive is the villain and flash is the hero.

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Flash memory looks to give Windows Vista performance a helping hand next year. In presentations by Intel and Microsoft at the Flash Memory Summit conference here, the details of how that flash-enabled speed boost will be accomplished grew a bit more clear.

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From WinFuture.de

WinFuture.de Showing Screenshots of Windows Vista BUILD 5505

WinFuture, a German Windows Enthusiast site, showcases some new screenshots of the latest leaked Windows Vista Build 5505.

Improvements

• Improved Visuals
• Sync Center

Check out the screenshots here

If Microsoft does afford to hit RTM in October it will certainly be a blessing in desguise, it looks like things are getting back on track, I hope to see significant performance improvements in the next release. As for the Flash storage targetting Vista, it only makes me want to put off my purchase of a new notebook even more, exciting hardware times ahead. WinFuture once again has another leaked build, not much to say about it, just that its new and far up in the numbers from the the most recent released builds (5384 - BETA 2) and 5472 released to Technical Testers last month.