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Microsoft: Windows 7 due out by the holiday shopping season
by Brad Linder May 11th 2009 at 2:15PM
In other words, you should be able to purchase the OS and find it preinstalled on computers no later than December. But it could be out even before then.
Microsoft released the first public beta of Windows 7 in January, and the release candidate went public last week. But the company has been reluctant to put a timetable on the final release of the operating system, and for good reason. Nobody wanted a repeat of the oft-pushed back Windows Vista. It's typically better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. So that said, I'm fairly confident that when Microsoft says Windows 7 will be out by the holidays, it means that the operating system will be out by the holidays.
It's not a done deal yet though. Microsoft still has to take the next step, which is to release Windows 7 to manufacturers. That's expected to happen in about 3 months or so.
[via Windows Team Blog]
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John said 4:31PM on 5-11-2009
I'm holding out on buying a new laptop for a few weeks so I can upgrade to a legitimate copy when the final version is released.
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JF said 6:10PM on 5-11-2009
I've got the Beta (build 7057) on my desktop right now. The only problem I have is installing Matlab. Otherwise I'm very impressed.
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verne babcock said 10:19AM on 5-21-2009
are they going to give us poor saps who got vista a free upgrade"
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