European consumers seem to be getting nothing but bad news this week. Yesterday, Sony announced that the European launch of its PlayStation 3 console would be pushed back four months to March 2007, and now Microsoft is suggesting that it may have to delay the European launch of Windows Vista. Instead of blue laser diode shortages, Microsoft lays blame on the European Commission's antitrust requirements for the possible delay.

In other news, it would seem that Microsoft's Windows Vista RC1 is really impressing the critics. Most journalist have been pretty harsh on Vista up to this point so this has to be a welcomed turn of events for MS.