Window Vista Pushed Back to 2007

Elizabeth Montalbano, of IDG News Service, tells us that Microsoft has decided to push the availability of Windows Vista until January of 2007.

This came in an announcement from Microsoft Co-President of the Platform and Services Division Jim Allchin.

Microsoft, however, plans to release Vista to business partners through its volume licensing program in November 2006, Allchin said in a conference call today.

In an interview earlier this year, Allchin said he would delay releasing Vista if the OS did not reach a standard of quality with which he was comfortable. In today's conference call, he said that Microsoft wanted to give customers a firm date for when the company could deliver Vista broadly, and so decided to push back the release to January of next year.

Liz is still reporting, so we'll update you when we know more.

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