Windows Vista will be available as a stand alone product or pre-installed on new PCs from January 30th 2007 according to the official Vista website today. Office 2007 will also be available at the same time. In the meantime if you are thinking of buying a PC or laptop now make sure you get one that offers an express upgrade to windows Vista. You must ensure you buy from a participating computer manufacturer between October 26th - March 15th 2007. The bad news is the qualifying PCs must be running Windows XP Media Centre, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, or Windows XP Professional. Note the lack of XP Home. The list of participating manufacturers includes the big names as you would expect such as Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, HP, Lenovo, Medion, NEC, Sony and Toshiba.