Windows Vista Countdown Clock

# by Rob Mensching on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:09 PM

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This morning, Jascha (who, sadly, has yet to actually make a public appearance that I can find a link to) sent around a link to a guy who has a funny way of saying that he's looking forward to the Windows Vista release on Windows Marketplace. I'm excited about the near future too.

But what really caught my eye was the "Countdown Clock" in the top right corner. Turns out that the gadget came from Donavon West at Live Gadgets.net. So, I pinged him to see if he would let me host the countdown clock here and he said, "Go right ahead!"

I can tell you that all of us on the Windows Marketplace team are working very hard to the tick of that clock. We are having a great time and very much looking forward to when it all reads "00:00:00" and you can buy Windows Vista and Office 2007 online.

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Comment by jascha on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:59 AM

i know. i'm horribly inconsistent with my posts but i promise i'll get better. here is an OLD link to a public appearance (channel 9 interview :) )
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmarketplace/archive/2006/08/31/734388.aspx

Comment by Wilfried Mensching on Sunday, January 28, 2007 7:53 AM

Hello, my Name is Wilfried Mensching, I am a Microsoft registered Partner working in Germany and I'm looking forward to sell as much Windows Vista and Office 2007 as I can. In the meantime I've sold some Vista Ultimate Editions to Systembuilders.
I 've ask many people regarding their plan to migrate to Vista and office 2007, but they answered:"We can wait, because in the past it has been better to wait for the first service pack." In my opinion it is wasted time to wait. What can I tell to my customers to force a faster migration?

Comment by Bruce on Monday, January 29, 2007 7:51 AM

Just noticed something "interesting", I am in central time zone, your countdown clock is obviously using the local pc time on my machine via Javascript? When I go look at windowsmarketplace.com, their countdown clock is using the server time I presume since it shows 2 hours more than my clock.

Just an observation for future implementations of a countdown clock, need to watch those timezones.

Comment by dodik on Monday, December 17, 2007 2:01 PM

Hi, their countdown clock is using the server time I presume since it shows 2 hours more than my clock too

Comment by sohbet on Friday, February 15, 2008 12:43 AM

The Windows Vista 64-bit upgrade from Windows Marketplace requires a 64-bit operating system.
Very good..

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Windows Vista Countdown Clock

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