From the “right on time, sort of” desk…

It looks like Windows Vista might just ship in January as Microsoft promised--barely. According to Amazon.com, Windows Vista is set to ship on January 30, 2007. Amazon is also now expecting preorders for Vista. As of this writing, Windows Vista Ultimate is already the 65th most popular software title on Amazon. For what it’s worth, Norton Utilities, Norton Antivirus, and Norton Internet Security are Amazon’s top three bestselling software products as of this writing.

Amusingly enough, Amazon also lists Vista as being “discontinued by the manufacturer.” Great. Contradictions.

Other events that have taken place on January 30 include the beginning of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War (1968), the beheading of King Charles I of England (1649), and the renaming of the town of Yerba Buena, California to San Francisco (1847). Exciting!