“The launch of the consumer version of Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system, could be pushed back past the stated January launch date, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said Wednesday,” Martyn Williams and Al Sacco report for IDG News Service.

“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,” Williams and Sacco report.

“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,” Williams and Sacco report.

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "qka" for the heads up.]

MacDailyNews Take: With apologies to Stephen Sondheim:


Isn’t it rich?
Aren’t they a pair?
One here at last on the ground,
Him in mid-air.
Send in the clowns.

Isn’t it bliss?
Don’t you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can’t move.
Where are the towels?
Send in the clowns.

Just when they’d stopped
Opening windows,
Finally knowing
The one that they wanted wasn’t yours,
Launching again
With their usual flair,
Thought there’d be lines,
But no one is there.

Don’t you love farce?
Their fault we cheer.
They thought that you’d want what they want-
Sorry, my dears.
But where are the towels?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don’t bother, they’re here.

What a surprise.
Who could forsee
You’d come to feel about them
What they’d always felt about you?
Why even now can’t they see
That you’ve drifted away?
What a surprise.
What a cliché.

Isn’t it rich?
Isn’t it queer,
Losing their timing this late
In their career?
But where are the towels?
There are certainly clowns,
But we don’t see the Vista
Well, maybe next year.

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