Very confusing situation - it's been released to manufacture at least.
The Register article
Yes, Vista is available (well, it has been released to manufacture) and yes, MSDN subscribers are jamming its servers in an attempt to download a copy. And yes, corporate subscribers are allowed to get early access. But no, you can't go into a store and buy one, despite what it says on the adverts.
I didn't realize your account gets terminated for things like that [not disbelieving you, but if it does?] - I don't play WoW - don't stab me with your Warcarft Fan +1 !!!!! But yeah, that sounds like a valid point.
How about WINE?
I know they break compatability with games now and then, but the majority of the time games work pretty soon after they come out, or update.
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.
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I didn't realize your account gets terminated for things like that [not disbelieving you, but if it does?] - I don't play WoW - don't stab me with your Warcarft Fan +1 !!!!! But yeah, that sounds like a valid point.