Via PCWorld.com comes a report that Windows Vista might not be ready in January after all:
The operating system was due to be launched this year but in March the company said it wouldn’t get broad release until January 2007. Ballmer said Wednesday that the planned January launch may slip further based on feedback from a beta release program and the product road-maps of hardware vendors.
“We think we are on track for shipping early in the year. We’ve talked about the month, but we get a chance to critically assess all of the feedback we’ll get from this beta release then confirm or move [the launch date] a few weeks,” he said at a news conference in Tokyo.
We’ll see. Until we’re within the six-month window, I take any tentative date with a grain of salt.
The headline, of course, is an homage to the late, great Lowell George. The definitive version of “Easy to Slip” is on Little Feat’s 1972 release, Sailin’ Shoes. Sadly, it is not on Waiting for Columbus, which is possibly absolutely the greatest live album ever.
Ed Bott 
Okay, this is a unique coincidence, since I saw Frank Zappa’s Mother of Invention tour movie on Sundance(?) a couple of weeks ago. Little Feat was hard to categorize, but for the younger readers out there, they were every bit as good, no better, in concert than on their albums.
On Vista, I truly hope no one at Microsoft is pressured to rush its release, even a delayed release. The longer they take, the better off we all are. Vista adoption will take no less than three years, given the stability of XP-SP2.
Thanks, I’ll eat it here.
(obligatory Lowell George counter-reference)
Vista is still a mess to get up and running. Won’t install on many machines. My tried and true P2 that I just can’t give up actually vomited when I tried to install it and my newer Averatec C3500 Tablet just hangs on install.
Funny thing, the tablet PC doesn’t like any Linux distros either…
Hmmmm…. 🙂