Windows Vista GA is Nigh
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The Windows Vista GA (General Availability) launch is in 3 days, 9 hours and 20 minutes.

I'll be celebrating the launch in NYC with a full roster of events.

Stay tuned...

posted by Jake B. @ 2:38:00 PM 1 comments   

What Will 2007 Bring?
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My blog posts have become less frequent. This is partly by design and partly due to the advent of the working world. The advent of the New Year will bring more advents, to be sure, but before moving on to new things I'll take a moment to revisit the old.

2006 Key Milestones

• Graduation - from the University of Michigan MBA program
• Turning 30 - and saying goodbye to my roaring 20's and hello to being an "old person"
• Starting a new job in the Windows group at Microsoft

2006 Predictions Assessment

Ouch. After looking at those top 9 predictions again, I think I won't comment on 8 of the 9. Instead let's look at #4, my 2006 stock predictions:

4. MSFT (26.15), YHOO (39.18), SID (21.40), CAT (57.77), MO (74.72), ALD (29.37), SFI (35.65) will outperform the S&P 500 index. (Respective prices on close of trading day 12/30/2005)

Results: MSFT (29.99), YHOO (25.45), SID (29.91), CAT (60.90), MO (85.20), ALD (32.58), SFI (47.81) - all prices are as of close on 12/25/2006.

10.7% Return. Pathetic. I beat the Nasdaq (9%) but failed to beat the S&P & Dow (15%, 16% respectively).

Take Yahoo out of the equation (which posted a -53.9% last year), and I beat all indexes with with a portfolio return of over 16.5%.

Wouldda, Couldda, Shouldda. Lesson learned.

This year I am going with a new look: TKG (81.10), IRBT (18.24), NHY (30.13), GRMN (54.95), EWO (36.20), IWS (146.36), RSP (47.36).

Put that in pot and let it simmer until 2008. See you then.

posted by Jake B. @ 4:19:00 PM 0 comments   

Windows Vista Business Launch
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Windows Vista is now officially available to business customers (these are customers that have licensing agreements with Microsoft).

Are you...


This means the really exicting consumer launch is only two short months away (don't worry if you are planning on purchasing a computer for Christmas - you'll still get Windows Vista when it is released).

posted by Jake B. @ 10:30:00 AM 0 comments   

Vista Goes RTM
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It's official... Windows Vista has gone RTM.



Now it's time to gear up for some frenetic Windows Vista Launch marketing.

posted by Jake B. @ 11:18:00 PM 1 comments