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General Motors and Microsoft took steps to cope with problems long in coming, while federal prosecutors were staggered by a reversal in a very visible corporate corruption case. Microsoft said that its new computer operating system, Windows Vista, would not be available to consumers before Christmas, as it had planned. Microsoft did not say why it would miss its own deadline of delivering Vista by the end of this year, but trade papers have reported that it has had difficulty in designing and debugging the system, which is particularly complex and power-hungry.