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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:In Before by nicolas.kassis · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hardly has that many new features. It's sort of a clean up that they did. I can hardly find one really crazy awesome feature that would make it that much better than vista feature wise. No, cleaner isn't really what I consider a feature.

  2. Re:90% of WHAT market??? by Darkness404 · · Score: 1, Troll

    The desktop market. The computer illiterate market. The market most IT people have to deal with at work. The market that gets viruses, etc. Basically, if I interact with people with computers in a non-programming environment you will probably have to use/fix Windows.

    It doesn't matter that someone uses Firefox whenever they corrupted a DLL you have to re-install.

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  3. Re:So? by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are a few of us fortunate to work in Mac shops. :)

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  4. October 22, 2009! by helbent · · Score: 0, Troll

    A day that will live... in INFAMY!!

    Seriously, expect wholesale user screeching of "Hey, my (fill in the blank) stopped working properly after I upgraded! What gives?" will start shortly thereafter.

  5. Finally the time by david_thornley · · Score: 0, Troll

    And it will finally be time to argue definitively how fast and slick Windows 7 is. I'm tired of people saying "Windows 7 is great!" when it isn't even out yet.

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