Windows Vista release delayed till January 2007
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Microsoft said today that consumer versions of its next-generation version of Windows would not hit the market until January 2007, dashing plans that it would be on PCs for sale during the 2006 end-of-year holiday season.
During a conference call today to detail the road map plans for Vista, however, Microsoft said it is on target to go into broad consumer beta to approximately two million users in the second quarter of 2006.
Jim Allchin, Microsoft's outgoing co-president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, stressed that Vista would be completed this year and available for businesses. "We decided to make it directly available in November via our volume licensing programming," he said, with "broad consumer and PC availability in January, 2007." Some customers lined up to support the move, despite the fact that Vista will miss the 2006 delivery that had been promised by Microsoft.