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Microsoft Confirms October 22 Release Date For Windows 7

Posted by Soulskill on from the pretending-to-be-surprised dept.

techwrench was one of several readers to send word that Microsoft has officially announced Windows 7 will be generally available on October 22nd. They also mentioned the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program: "This program enables participating retailers and OEMs to offer a special deal to upgrade to Windows 7 for customers purchasing a qualifying PC. I'll be doing another blog post about this program with a date and more details when we get closer to availability. Obviously, Release To Manufacturing (RTM) is an important milestone on the path to GA. We anticipate that we'll be able to make the RTM code for Windows 7 available to our partners sometime in the 2nd half of July. We also expect to be able to make RTM code for Windows Server 2008 R2 available to our partners in this time frame as well."

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  1. Actually... by IANAAC · · Score: 4, Informative
    a couple of years ago I had the pleasure of consulting in a office that only had Linux for their workers, save for the salespeople.

    They used LTSP and tftp to boot the image off the server, essentially making the desktops terminals.

    If I were setting up an office, that would be the way I would go. Everything is centralized and easily backed up.

    It is an office environment, after all. The users probably complained the first month, then got over it and did their work.