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Microsoft rolled out on October twelve a partial checklist of third-party peripherals and software program that can be licensed to interoperate with Windows Vista in time for your holiday period. However the organization still has yet to drop the much larger shoe, by announcing the Vista coupon deal that it'll offer you with its Computer partners to entice customers to get Vista-ready machines, despite the fact that Vista won't launch officially until January 2007. Microsoft is expected to unveil the technical-guarantee coupon offer later this month. But no one at the Digital Life show, at which Microsoft made the Vista compatibility announcement today,Windows 7 Pro Key, uttered a peep about the pending program. The lack of coupon specifics didn't stop analysts with the Gartner Group (whose track record on Vista predictions lately has been pretty dismal, I have to note) from pouring cold water on Microsoft's coupon plans. If Microsoft and its partners do end up charging consumers who obtain XP Home Edition now the rumored $49 fee to upgrade to Vista Home Basic and $79 to Vista Home Premium, "it is doubtful whether the Express Upgrade system will probably be able to drive consumer Pc sales this holiday period,Office 2010 Sale," said the Gartner analysts, via a blog entry. "But if the PCs bought with Windows Media Center will probably be entitled to a free upgrade coupon,Office 2010 Key, then Microsoft could persuade some of the shoppers to buy Media Center PCs in the fourth quarter,Office 2010 Home And Stude/nt," Gartner added. Like many Microsoft watchers, Gartner is not expecting many businesses to upgrade to Vista in the near term, negating the value of any kind of tech-guarantee coupon deal for even small-business consumers. At Digital Life, Michael Sievert, corporate vice president of Windows Client Marketing, took the wraps off a record of more than 250 hardware and software products from over 50 vendors that already have received either the “Certified for Windows Vista” or “Works with Windows Vista” logo. Close to 100 percent of the PCs currently on retailers' shelves are at least Windows-Capable, said Justin Hutchinson, group product manager for Windows client, who participated in Sievert's keynote address. Sievert added that most hardware and software program introduced over the past few years will likely be Vista-compatible; the new "certified for Windows Vista" and "Works with Windows Vista" marks are just designed to deliver users with an additional level of confidence. (Exactly which apps are and are not Vista-compatible nevertheless remains to be seen,Office 2010 Professional, of course.) Although Microsoft has been talking about Vista for a long time, at last, "this launch is upon us," Sievert told attendees.