You heard that right. According to the Supersite for Windows in their article about the Vista December 2005 CTP release, Microsoft is planning an internal release of a feature-complete version of Windows Vista later this month!

To me, this is an almost shocking announcement, since, as you probably know, Microsoft is planning to release Vista about a year from now. What will they be doing with Vista this next year? Will they actually be spending almost an entire year fixing bugs and improving the quality of the OS? If so, we are going to have a really high-quality operating system when it ships in holiday season 2006. This is becoming quite exciting.

Oh yeah, be sure to take a look at the article’s showcase of Windows Vista wallpaper too. Subject to change, of course, since the wallpaper seems to change with every major Vista preview release.