Microsoft Confirms October 22 Release Date For Windows 7

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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[arkhan_jg]

I don't want to move to linux on the desktop for the ordinary users. With the range and amount of crappy software (designed for windows 98!) that their managers insist they MUST have that is windows only and doesn't have a linux analog, I can live without the grief of desktop virtualization.

Add to that the many staff than can't handle when an option moves two places down in a menu on office, or how to fix the 'problem' that I've already shown them how to fix three times this week, I'd spend my entire day just helping them find their way round firefox (yes, we have firefox on our windows pcs. No, they don't use it because they 'know the internet', and the big e IS the internet)

Windows sucks, but supporting it sucks less than trying to deal with staff who don't gain anything from training, even if we had the money or time to pay for it. And active directory might suck, but it sucks less than trying to get the equivalent functionality with openldap, and my linux servers still tie in to it nicely.