It seems that Vista will ship to the general public on 30 January 2007.

Will people be talking about Vista at the end of January? Probably. But I hope that more people will be talking about MacOS X Leopard. The MacWorld Expo in San Francisco runs from 8-12 January, two weeks before, during which we will find out more about Leopard – including its secrets – and probably when it will ship.

Still, there’s always Zune – although Wall Street Journal principle technology consultant Walter Mossberg doesn’t think so:

This first Zune has too many compromises and missing features to be as good a choice as the iPod for most users. The hardware feels rushed and incomplete. It is 60% larger and 17% heavier than the comparable iPod. It has much worse battery life for music than the iPod or than Microsoft claims—at least two hours less than the iPod’s, in my tests. Despite the larger screen, many album covers look worse than they do on the iPod. And you can’t share music libraries between computers like you can with iTunes.