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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. Re:So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Before people pounce on him like the lynchmob this website is, it's rarely the people in IT who want to stay with windows.

    I work in IT and like to stay on Windows. I use Windows at work and with my lab at home for both workstations and servers. There have been times that I have used Linux for certain play projects, but honestly at the end of the day I end up going back to Windows. The only Linux/BSD variant I'm currently running is Monowall for my firewall. The last time I ran Linux as my primary workstation is when I played Quake and Team Fortress, and connected to the Internet through Netcom and my 28.8kbps modem :) I feel that I am a true IT geek too. I love working with computers, no matter what platform it is running. I love working with routers, firewalls, switches (I have a CCNA).

    Maybe one can say that I'm not a real IT person, or that people like me are not that common, but the truth is there are a lot of people in IT who prefer staying with Windows.

  2. Re:Not neccesarily, it is time for a new core. by EdZ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Forced? I can't think of many pieces of software that work on Vista and not XP. If you have an ancient PIII, then by all means keep XP. If you have any relatively recent multi-core CPU, then the performance difference between XP and Vista is negligible at best, and the stability improvements are welcome.
    Does Vista run poorly on older hardware? Yes. Would you complain that blu-ray video doesn't look good on your 14" CRT?