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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."
How long until they release Service Pack 1 for it? I'll switch when that comes out.
'We won't be actually selling [Windows 7] a day before the 23rd October.'
I hate to break it to you but that merely means the earliest possible date they could get Windows 7 is October 23rd. I'll bet that if everything goes on track perfectly according to schedule with the release candidate from now until October 23rd, that will be the release date. I'm going to bet--like with 90% of multi-million lines of code projects--that there will be at least some slipping in the schedule.
It's simply too far out there to be a solid date. I'm not sold, I feel this is a good hint but still just speculation. Vendors asked Microsoft when the earliest possible date is and they mistakenly relayed that to customers setting an expectation for their product.
My work here is dung.
Bet the farm Ma... Because Microsoft always hits their release dates.
What gets me about this sort of leak is that we all treat it as some sort of big news when in reality we are leaked information in this way all the time. Notice that it is always someone high up in the foodchain talking to someone in the media.
A real accidental leak would be something overheard at a bar where the speaker didn't know a reporter was listening. But when the guy says it straight out to a reporter, that isn't leaking, that's just an unofficial announcement.
Remember when Adam Osborne announced that the next version of his PC would be better than his current one and everyone stopped buying in anticipation? Leaks are always carefully planned but don't always have the effect you're looking for.
My birthday is the release data and I rather it not be dragged down by another depressing version of Windows.
Even if it be final I'm very hopeful for the new release and knowing that it will be before the winter holiday season (most likely) gives me great hope that I'll be able to get a final version by the end of the year. I've been running several linked versions and am currently running version 7100 and it's at least on par with XP for gaming, multitasking, and general use without the bugs and bloats of Vista.
You never know though, we could get a leaked final version a month early! Let's just hope Microsoft doesn't screw this up between now and October/November!
We shouldn't expect Wnidows 7 until at least May 2010?!
Vista 2009, I mean Windows 7, will be awesome! I can't wait to install it on all my computers! I'll throw out the old clunkers which Vista 2009, I mean Windows 7, will not support with drivers! It's going to be so worth it! Vista is AWESOME!
Finally the Empire will crush the rebel scum and bring order to the galaxy.
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Why is everything about Windows 7 leaky? Or leak is now considered as an acceptable replacement for the word announce
Hi, I'm looking for a list of talking points about why Windows 7 is horrible. They must be emotionally charged, unfounded, and repeated often enough that people start to believe. Preferably, I would like the opinion of people who think they know things about operating systems offering technical reasons why it is bad. That way my opinion seems more real, like the kids say.
Also, please leave things like facts out of this...they are unamerican and unnecessary in most of life.
For the zombies in the code to rise on the 31st.
Thanks to my high school chemistry teacher Mr. Weisbrook, 10/23 will forever be known as Mole Day.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/dictionariesglossaries/g/defmole.htm
6.022 x 10^23
... a date which will live in infamy.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I want to read this year's Halloween memo.
DMCA - Chilling free speech since 1998.
Is Windows 7 going to be using resources more efficiently, or less efficiently than Windows XP?
I still don't understand the concept that each new OS has to be more resource intensive than the last. I want something that can manage my resources, not consume them.
Other than to force us to buy the latest hardware, of course. But that's not for us. Where's our gain?
3:1 says it launches on Halloween with a default skin featuring The Poltergeist. Any takers?
considering the release date for most microsoft products gets "leaked" at some point when theyre remotely close to a release. to the open source community, regularly leaking dates about the release of your product is called a release schedule...so perhaps this is redmonds attempt?
Good people go to bed earlier.
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....
Oh keep talking about bad software, the way this is looking people will think that vista revisited (aka windows 7) is the best thing, And what leak? is not part of Microsoft plan to keep people paying attention to the crap
Just grow up
On no uncertain terms, Microsoft has to deliver in October.
Why? OEM's and Microsoft have already sold it into retailers like Worst Buy. Do you think Exec's at Worst Buy want to miss their golden revenue generator in Q4? Acer clearly has been working with Microsoft to deliver #7 for the holiday. I'm sure HP has stuff in the pipe for the holidays too.
If the date slips. It will be an ugly couple of weeks inside Microsoft Retail Sales.
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Only MS software can leak before being released.
Or did I read that wrong?
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I say things which affects my Karma negatively. (and I don't care) For instance; All religion is false.
Most likely I will be typing update-manager -d on my Ubuntu 9.04 workstation at around the same time all those suckers out there waste hundreds of dollars on yet another insecure Windows OS.
Sure they will have made strides at security above and beyond XP and Vista; but as long as Windows continues to use a registry, allow a user account to disable UAC for processes requesting access as Administrator without requiring a password, continue touting security through obscurity, and still refuse to adopt a similar lib model followed by Unix based OSes; they will propagate viruses, spyware, and rootkits at rates equal or exceeding today, far exceeding the rate of malware propagation in Linux, BSD, and OS X.
...no on my birthday!
It will forever be remembered as the dawn of oh teh horrorxorz!
How can I make a party on that day, when all the people will either be nauseous sick at home, or mourning the loss of their computers and family members?
Ubuntu 9.10 is currently slated to be released six days later.
Could it possibly be worth advancing Ubuntu's release date by about 10 days, just to steel Microsoft's thunder?
I'm no IE fan but I just installed it and it didn't override my settings. It did however change it's default search engine to yahoo, and when I went to change it back to Google the option wasn't there. I actually had to do a little work to get Google added back, which was annoying. Doesn't really matter, I'm sticking with Firefox...
Even better than mispelling is a well crafted ambigious use of 'lose' and 'loose'.
For example: "The Acer leak of the Win7 launch date caused Microsoft to loose this secret information."
This will cause many readers to reparse your sentence a couple of times trying to figure out what you really mean.
This release will come eight years almost to the day after the release of Windows XP. I'm using the beta of 7 at home, just like I used all the betas and RCs of XP at home. Looking at Windows then and Windows now, I see a huge missed opportunity. I am pleased with Windows 7, and I think Microsoft has made a lot of smart decisions in their design, production, and marketing of the OS, but it still feels like more of a mea culpa than a solid, polished OS.
If Microsoft's management had been on top of their shit, this product would have released four years ago and what we're seeing today could be so much more. Unfortunately, their back-to-the-drawing-board idea with Longhorn, though a good thing in the end, lost so many years of work and code that it seriously stunted Microsoft's growth of the OS.
Hence Windows Vista. Hence Windows 7. What I'm going to be most interested in is, once 7 is out and people lower the volume of their trash-talking, what is Microsoft going to do next? What major technologies are they working on? What is their vision for the desktop? Windows 7 is just Windows Vista with two more years of polish. Though a terrific upgrade from Vista, I want to hear more about Microsoft's research projects and what real, major features they're working on for future OSes. I'm tired of hearing about multitouch, because that is quickly becoming genericized among OS makers and will remain out of reach for most users for some time, being hardware-dependent.
Ask anyone what they'd change about Windows and you'll get a litany of complaints. Ask Microsoft and they'll tell you Windows is perfect, you just don't understand it.
Is the spinning cube! OOOH spinning CUUBES!
The first security update for Windows 7 will be sent out.
I am amazed at the fact that anybody visiting this site even cares.
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Just love windows 7! It is everything Vista should have been. Saying this, i make my living since 1997 on non windows software.
I still believe that Windows 7 should be a free upgrade to Windows Vista buyers...It's been a very short run for Vista and with people having forked out for Vista I think that Microsoft may have a difficult time charging again for Windows 7.
When all is said and done, nothing changes...
According to the release schedule https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule that is a day after the Karmic release candidate. Karmic will be released on October 29th and I don't expect slippage on that. Mark was talking about distros getting release dates aligned, I didn't expect Microsoft to be the first to respond.
Even though it's almost 6 mo. away, I don't think I will jump on the bandwagon right then. When the time comes, I will extend a warm welcome to our Windows 7 overlords.
But how much can Windows be worth these days if a new computer can be purchased for $300 - $400? Surely most of this price is for the hardware. If Windows was priced according to this math, I'll willing to buy an upgrade.
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