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Windows 7 Launch Date Leaked — 23 Oct. 2009
Sockatume writes "Yesterday, two Acer executives in Europe separately let slip details that give us a good date for the release of Windows 7. First, Acer's vice-president for Europe discussed a new product, launching this September, that will support Windows 7's touch features. Asked whether this confirmed the Windows 7 release date as September 2009, he coyly remarked that 'when it's in store it won't have Windows 7 pre-loaded.' Microsoft would probably prefer that he had stopped there, but he added: 'We won't be actually selling [Windows 7] a day before the 23rd October.' Then, Acer's Managing Director for the UK helpfully clarified that while their product will ship with Windows Vista at launch, because it is on sale less than 30 days before the Windows 7 release date, it will be eligible for the 'upgrade program' to get a free upgrade to the new OS."
When Vista was launched and no one adopted it in a big way... it was, like: This is what happened when XP got released.. .it will be okay when SP2 comes out. And now, Vista has well and truly bombed in Corporate Circles and now Windows 7 is coming up. Given that it is Vista SP3; it will receive the same response from Corporates despite XP running in Virtual mode; because the XP will not have direct access to hardware and old software will still be broken.
So what do the MS shills have to say now? If Vista is the greatest selling OS, why is a successor launched so soon? If newer h/w vendors come up with Netbooks running Linux or ARM-based h/w; how will MS respond?
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
what do you mean?
Windows 7 is Vista SP2!
A new PR department? You can't polish a turd (try it sometime). Microsoft needs a new management structure for development and new development priorities.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Neah, 7 is Vista SP3 surely?
"I know tons of people who aren't buying Vista, and since they stopped selling xp, people just aren't buying windows."
Odd.
They're still selling XP from what I can tell.
They people who aren't buying Windows now are the same people who never buy Windows.
As you can see, ANY OEM can easily ship systems with XP. Dell still does. At no extra cost on many systems. Dell. The fucking largest OEM there is. So stop fucking lying.
1. DRM
2. BSOD
3. IE