Microsoft's new operating system 'Vista' has been re-scheduled to January 2007 instead of Q3-2006.

Microsoft said Vista is delayed because it wants to improve overall quality, particularly in security, and that PC makers didn't want the operating system introduced in the middle of holiday sales, because a new version would create instability in the market.

Talk about creating instability in the market. What this does is guarantee that there will be no PC's given as Xmas gifts this year. Why would you give somebody a rather pricey gift that will need to be replaced next month?

But every silver lining has a cloud... if you're looking for a hot new Linux server, the PC makers will be dumping their old stock at Xmas time at ridiculous discounts both to make way for the Vista boxes and to boost the anemic sales. 

Just don't try and run Vista on one of these puppies. I've heard through the grapevine that this is going to be the most bloated Windows yet. You're going to need a new 20ghz PC with 100 gigs of RAM and a few zotabytes of hard disk space if you want to see Vista work...