“Mr Raymond Vardanega, the Marketing Director, of Acer Australia has confirmed independently of SmartHouse Magazine that Microsoft is having major problems with its Vista operating system. He said ‘The decision to delay Vista into the consumer market will have an impact on hardware sales particularly in the Media Centre market. We have been told that Microsoft has bought in programmers from the Xbox team to work on the problems. We have also been told that up to 60% of the code will have some form of re writing or changes made. We are told that Microsoft is concerned at the impact that the delay will have on hardware manufacturers. We have raised our concerns directly with Microsoft.’ ”

So says David Richards, writing today for Australian Smarthouse magazine.

Robert Scoble has said that the reorg is true but the rewrite is “totally false”.

Microsoft has not rebutted this story officially. Until it does, it can’t blame anyone for harboring suspicions.

Update: Robert Scoble muses, Can this week ever end?