Microsoft has delayed RTM Release for Vista

The Internet is abuzz with reports that Microsoft Vista will miss an important deadline, possibly making the operating system slip its launch schedule.
The October 25 date for Vista's release to manufacturing -- or RTM -- has been reset by Microsoft to November 8.
Jim Allchin, copresident of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division had admitted, the company wouldn't make its planned RTM date, but did not say whether the final release date would be affected.
As there is no direct relation Microsoft could afford to postpone the RTM date to the second week of November and still meet its January launch schedule for consumer editions of Windows Vista.