Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. has started taking early orders for Microsoft Corp.'s long-delayed Windows Vista operating system, offering versions of the product from $100 to $399.
The retailer's Web site said the software will be available on January 30, and an Amazon spokesman said on Tuesday the date was an estimate based on informal conversations with Microsoft and others in the computer industry.
Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos declined to comment on Amazon's pre-sale, saying the software maker is still finalizing its pricing model. It has not set a release date for the new version of Windows, which sits on more than 90 percent of the world's personal computers.
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