Almost exactly 4 months ago, Microsoft announced the (then) latest delay to Microsoft Vista, from fall ’06 to January ’07.

Yesterday:

Today, Microsoft co-president Kevin Johnson would not even entirely confirm that second half date. Sources quote Johnson as saying, while Vista remains “on track” for 2H 2007, it will only ship “when the product is ready.” Later during the meeting, Reuters quoted Johnson as slipping that commitment even further, stating, “We will ship Windows Vista when it is available.”

Wow, 2H 2007 would likely mean October, 2007. In four months time, they’ve slipped nine months.

Interestingly, yesterday morning (prior to reading this), my wife’s 3.5 year old computer was having problems and getting slow. I told her, “Hold out another 6 months and we’ll get you a new PC with Vista on it.”, which shows that even tech goobers like me still get suckered into believing Microsoft’s release dates…

[Update 8/23/06]
I haven’t seen anything else to indicate an official delay beyond January ’07, and I think that this statement was probably referring to fiscal calendar, rather than actual calendar (see the first poster in the comments section). So the official date is still probably January ’07, although at least one analyst (George Shiffler – Gartner Group) in an article I read today does not expect MS to make the January date.

[Update 8/28/06]
Well, it seems that at least Amazon is indicating Vista will be available on January 30, 2007. The prices on the linked page are Canadian dollars I believe…

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