Yes, Gartner (er, Virginia), Microsoft will ship Vista on sc
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Sorry Gartner, but it's official: "Microsoft today confirmed that it is on track to deliver Windows Vista for worldwide availability to its volume license business customers in November and worldwide general availability in January," reads a Microsoft press release. In other words, hold the jokes about Microsoft not being able to ship timely products. As scheduled, Microsoft is going to release Vista to manufacturing some time this month--the internal date is October 25, although that date could slip to as far back as November 8--and roll out the product according to the schedule that the company revealed early this year. Since the release of Microsoft's Vista schedule, analysts at Gartner have made themselves look silly twice by predicting that Microsoft would never meet its deadline.