That's a real shame. Obviously, I was really looking forwards to this release. Promptly, anyways.

@Mukremin - It's hard to say really. Bunch of different reasons. Polish. Bugs. Fiscal Year/financial positioning.

And the most bullshit excuse is Launch Date positioning. SO it doesn't interfere with any "big releases". Which I think is why they delayed it. To avoid the whole Christmas Blockbuster interference of the major releases coming out around then.