Microsoft is serious about meeting its ship date for Windows Vista during the second half of 2006.
During a briefing last week, Microsoft executives said the feature-complete version of the Vista beta test code would be finished by the end of the year. Executives declined to provide an exact release date for Beta 2 but hinted it could be sometime in the first quarter of 2006.
Observers said advances made by Google in recent months—and the release of Mozilla’s Firefox 1.5 last week—are driving a new urgency within Microsoft to broadcast the message that its own search technology and Internet Explorer 7.0 in Vista will be in customers’ hands soon.
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