ASUS Presents the World?s First WHQL Certified Notebook

Based on an email from this evening:

ASUS Presents the World’s First WHQL Certified Notebook
R1 notebook series leads the way to the new Vista computing era

ASUS proudly introduces the R1 notebook series as the world’s first notebook to receive the Vista x86 Premium logo. that brings new computing and digital entertainment possibilities with the much anticipated Vista operating system. The victory is first but not least as ASUS works closely with Microsoft to prepare for a complete notebook line offering dynamic computing solutions for a brand new computing experience.

“This success was made possible by our dedicated team as well as the great support from our long-time partner Microsoft,” said Tony Chen, General Manager of ASUS Notebook Business. “We are confident to bring users forward with other innovations based on the Vista operating system while continue to stay one step ahead.”


“We are happy to congratulate ASUS for being the world’s first WHQL certified notebook maker,” said Thomas Li, Sr. Director, OEM department of Microsoft Taiwan, “We are excited to continue to work with ASUS to bring more new exciting innovations to users that will take the overall computing experience to another level.

 

Asus FTW! haha.

 

Call me anything you want.. but what's FTW?

 

FTW - 'for the win'.
It's gaming lingo, I guess. It's pretty commonly used outside of gaming too nowadays.

 

hahaha, FTW = "For the win"

That's pretty awesome news. Do you expect to see it hitting port with Vista any earlier than Asus' other models? When is the W3J gonna get a darn BIOS that supports the OS!?

~ Brett

 

um

ftw is what bikers tatoo on themselves a lot

it means um

fark the world

way more common usage.

 

Yay. Now everyone else has to follow suite.

FTW = "for the win" = "for taiwan!"

 

Yeah, I was thinking - F the world too.... but didn't see how that applied... "for the win" makes sense but let's just be clear... I could have looked it up online and pretended to know it all along - but I'm sorta glad I didn't because I can no claim I'm not the dorkiest or the dorks on the forum..

But I gotcha.

 

www.urbandictionary.com

is a good place to figure out internet slang

 

For anyone that's interested in slogging through the Windows WHQL testing and certification documentation: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/whql/default.mspx

It basically means all components of a notebook should work well with the Windows OS installed and have no [messed] up drivers -- from what I can tell.

 

Yay! Go Asus!

Hehe instead of talking about the new notebook, this thread seems to be talking about internet slang .

 

So it's basically just Certified.

Decrease in common problems?

 

Something to complain about when something doesn't work:

"DARNIT! THAT STICKER SAYS ALL THE DRIVERS ARE COMPATIBLE! UGGGGH!"



~ Brett

 

Right, well it's big deal only because sales of systems across the board (from every company) have cut down due to possible issues like this...... Not say between individuals like people on this site, but businesses...... Seeing this certification on the R1f means increased commitments for large business orders NOW verses in February or later.... Especially since MOST places won't want to switch off of XP Pro for probably the first year.... they'll be able to get the free Vista upgrade and then just upgrade later down the road and know that everything will work.