Vista and Its Effect on WinFX for Your Development

Andrew has posted a pointer to a succinct answer from a Microsoft employee on the very important impact of a recent timeline announcement on Vista and WinFX. Those of us who have dependencies in our products and our beta and ship cycles on WinFX have the right to ask tough questions as this could have a huge effect. I am not allowed to share any answers I have gotten for us with WCF/WinFX but Andrew points to a succinct public answer.

Business customers will get Vista in Nov 2006. Vista will include WinFX. At the same time WinFX will be broadly available for download to all customers (and my ISVS) for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. A finished WinFX will not be made available before this time but we will continue to release Community Tech Previews of WinFX and Vista.

At the moment we have a go-live license for WCF and WF for the January CTP of WinFX. We expect to have a go-live license for all of WinFX later in the year - August? ish? :)