Amazon are listing the shipping date of the retail version of Windows Vista as 31st January 2007.

It will be RTM (Released to Manfacturing) in October I would imagine.

I am using currently using Windows Vista RC1 it came out a few weeks ago, so its a good feature complete indication of what to expect.

The good news is the performance is getting better.

But worryingly the RC1 I am using crashes spectacularly when I take my laptop off mains power and onto the battery power.

The internal bug reporting application informs me this bug has been fixed in future releases but I would have hoped something as simple as this would not be an issue at this late stage.

Tip: If you have the same problem the cure is to disable Intel Speedstep in the bios. Thats not really acceptable either as your computer works better with Speedstep enabled.

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