Another Windows Vista Delay !

Microsoft will postpone with at least one week the RTM version of Windows Vista. The previous announcement made about the release of Vista corporate edition specified the fourth week of October 2006. Now, as indicated by the Digitimes, it seems that Vista will make its debut most certainly in the second week of November 2006.

Apparently, the Redmond giant informed few of its Taiwanese partners about the new delay of its RTM version of the OS (also known as build number 5824) last week. Due to intense feed-back from beta-testers and hard work from its engineers Microsoft managed to reduce significantly the number of bugs present in the final Release Candidate of Vista, which was launched at the beginning of October. The mentioned sources indicated only 500 bugs still lurking inside Vista RC3’s code, from the impressive 1,450 found in RC2.

But although their number dropped significantly their importance didn’t, so MS had to reschedule Vista’s launch, because an upgraded Windows XP could crash.

Since problems are not over, MS will keep testing the RTM version of its flagship OS until the official day of its release, in November.

Despite the delayed launch of the RTM version, Microsoft assured PC makers that its plan to launch the business-use and home-use Vista OS in November 2006 and January 2007, respectively, remain unchanged, the sources stated.

Microsoft Taiwan said that the release of the business and home versions of Vista is on schedule as planned.

The core issue here is how much we can trust the cited sources and especially Microsoft. It is not unusual in the history of Vista to have lots of delays and another one, so close to the previously mentioned official term and after a lot of positive declarations, would most definitely surprise many people and hurt MS’s credibility