TG Daily has inside information that Microsoft’s product partners for Windows Vista have received a time frame for the launch of the operating system. According to sources, Microsoft will introduce Vista in the week beginning October 2.

The website reports: “The Vista timeline indicates that the February beta of Vista concludes the beta phase for the operating system. Microsoft will continue on its roadmap with two release candidates RC0 and RC1, which are due in the week of April 10 and June 26, respectively. Microsoft is confident that it can prepare Vista within eight weeks of the release of RC1 for mass production: A release to manufacturing (RTM) is scheduled for the week of August 14.”

The server version of Vista will follow slightly behind the client software, with RTM scheduled for the first quarter of 2007. Long-suffering Windows XP users will have one more Service Pack (SP3) to contend with, set for December this year.