Gates: '80% chance Windows Vista will ship by January 2007'

Posted on Wednesday, July 12 2006 @ 0:00 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
According to Bill Gates, there's an 80 percent chance that Windows Vista will be ready in tome for January. However, it's possible that there may be a slight delay of problems arise:
"We got to get this absolutely right. If the feedback from the beta tests shows it is not ready for prime time, I'd be glad to delay it," said Gates at a presentation in Cape Town, South Africa. The Chicago Tribune reports:

He said Microsoft was investing $8 billion to $9 billion in developing Vista and the company's next version of Office, its key cash-generator. He said the company's software partners, in developing and adapting their own products for the two launches, would invest 20 times as much as Microsoft. Gates said he hoped the next version of Office would be ready in December.
More details at DailyTech.


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