Zeta Vista

It's odd. Windows Vista was available from retail channes on January 30th, 2007. Magnussoft Zeta 1.5 was initally announced to be available on January 15th, 2007, but then got postponed to January 29th. One day prior to vista.

I've seen Vista advertisements at prime time on TV yesterday. Magnussoft of cause probably doesn't want to burn their venture capital on TV adverstisements. So let's have a look what their homepage, today on January 31th, has to offer.

The frontpage is still offering Zeta 1.21. You can only get 1.5 as an upgrade, and there is a news item about the 1.5 upgrade beeing pushed to the press shop during this week. It also says that delivery to retail channels will start end of next week, that makes February 9th.

When visiting their online shop, you are still told that Zeta 1.5 upgrade is expected to be released on January 29th, and that you can only preorder.

I don't know why Magnussoft is unable to cleanup that confusing mess, but here is a summary of the current state: You can't buy Magnussoft Zeta 1.5 at the moment. You also won't be able to buy Magnussoft Zeta 1.5 without prior owning a Magnussoft Zeta 1.21, because it's only an upgrade. This is bad for those who wanted to purchase a full version of Zeta 1.5, but probably good for shops that overstocked 1.21.

I don't own Zeta 1.21. And I'm not going to buy Vista.