Internal schedules and reports from a variety of sources are now placing the retail availability of Windows XP in October, causing some analysts and pundits to claim that Microsoft has delayed its latest operating system. But Microsoft has denied these claims, stating that a firm release date had never been announced. "What we have said is that quality is the number one driver for the delivery of Windows XP," a Microsoft spokesperson said late Friday. "Nothing has changed from our standpoint of a release in the second half of 2001."

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