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Windows 7 scheduled for a mid-2009 release
by Brad Linder Nov 7th 2008 at 12:00PM
The news came out of a presentation at WinHEC. And it's not a huge surprise. After all, an early build of Windows 7 is already in the hands of developers and a ton of folks who know how to use BitTorrent. The early build is still rough around the edges and lacks some of the features Microsoft hopes to ship in the final version. But initial reports indicate that it's more responsive than Windows Vista and has a number of improvements affecting startup, battery life, and general usability.
At least one computer maker has already said that it plans to release a laptop running Windows 7 as early as mid-2009. At the time, that sounded like optimisitc talk. Now it's starting to look a bit more realistic.
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Slappy said 6:02PM on 11-07-2008
ROFLOL....this is one of the funniest things I've heard all day...I will make sure to ride my unicorn down to the store to pick up a copy with ALL of the features they've been promising.
I just hope I don't get any pig poop on me from all the pigs that'll have to be flying for Windows 7 to be a satisfactory release in that time frame.
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Nick from Ludlow, MA said 6:02PM on 11-07-2008
I've been running Windows 7 build 6801 on an (old) Dell Latitude D610. This is an approx. 3-year-old laptop with 2 GB of memory and a 2 GHz Pentium M. Running Windows Vista SP1 on it was... adequate. Just barely adequate. It got much worse battery life than when it had Windows XP SP3 installed, and it took a pretty long time from power-on to being usable.
Windows 7, on the other hand, absolutely flies on this machine. As far as I can perceive it, Windows 7 runs *as fast* as Windows XP on this machine, and it gets *far* better battery life than when it was running Windows Vista.
Windows Vista was a huge architectural change for Microsoft. Windows 7, on the other hand, is a significant retooling of all the work that was done in Windows 7. Windows 7 benefits from the changes made in Vista, but now Microsoft has had the time to really trim down the code and make everything much more efficient. For those who have been holding out on Vista, Windows 7 is the release you've been waiting for!
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Jash Sayani said 8:48AM on 11-08-2008
As expected... Somewhere in June/July 09.
And SnowLeopard (OS 10.6) in Jan 09 @ MacWorld Expo.
LET THE COMPETITION BEGIN !! *Green Flag*
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jck said 9:34PM on 12-30-2008
competition ?
lol
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