Swad Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Check out this guy's webpage. What he found is hilarious! "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… " Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8731-vista-launch-dec-1/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bond Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Hehe... Smart detective work on his part. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8731-vista-launch-dec-1/#findComment-54783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Just a month and day - and no year? It must be genuine Microsoft then! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8731-vista-launch-dec-1/#findComment-54803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bond Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Lol...! :censored2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8731-vista-launch-dec-1/#findComment-54838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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