Microsoft rolled out on October 12 a partial list of third-party peripherals and software that will be certified to interoperate with Windows Vista in time for the holiday season. But the company still has yet to drop the much bigger shoe, by announcing the Vista coupon deal that it will offer with its PC partners to entice customers to buy Vista-ready machines, even though Vista won't launch officially until January 2007.
Microsoft is expected to unveil the technical-guarantee coupon deal later this month. But no one at the Digital Life show, at which Microsoft made the Vista compatibility announcement today, uttered a peep about the pending program.
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