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Windows 7 release date: October 22nd

The company has been indicating that it hopes to have Windows 7 out in time for the holiday shopping season, and an October launch certainly fits the bill. But if you're in the market for a back-to-school computer this fall, it looks like you're going to have to stick with Windows Vista, XP, OS X, or Linux.
[via Engadget]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Lee Mathews said 2:39PM on 6-02-2009
OEMs will get their hands on it in July, so we'll likely see the full RTM on torrent trackers well in advance of October 22nd.
I hear someone's been leaking a build every now and then...
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markyb said 4:57PM on 6-02-2009
I'll be watching the torrents just like when Vista RTM came out. I remember seeing a picture of a Vista display in a store, that said Coming Soon, and someone put a burned Vista RTM disc with serial on that display.
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kojo87 said 11:14PM on 6-02-2009
i will definitely be "buying" Win7 as soon as i can
markyb said 7:50AM on 6-03-2009
And by buying you mean paying for internetz
kojo87 said 11:14PM on 6-02-2009
why does almost every Win7 screen i see have goofy boxes on the desktop. what is that?
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markyb said 7:51AM on 6-03-2009
thats when you point at the desktop it moves the windows out of the way so you can see the desktop.
TwistedGamez said 7:51AM on 6-03-2009
This is confusing. In the post you say it will be commercially available October 2009!!!
How is that the case??? I think you are mistaken i think it is 2010!
I say this because the Microsoft windows 7 emails being sent out about expiry dates say that the Release Candidate will be shutting down from MARCH 1, 2010 to JUNE 1, 2010...
If the RC is shutting down in 2010 i don't think the final will be out before the RC expires...!
I think you are mistaken because the preview of the source quoted does not actually say 2009... Can we please try figure this out!
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Søren Hartmann Kristensen said 7:51AM on 6-03-2009
I'm pretty sure it's 2009! It wouldn't make sense to expire the RC until after the real version is commercially available. Then you'd have to switch back to vista before upgrading back to win7... that would be ridiculous!
TwistedGamez said 7:51AM on 6-03-2009
Hmm yeah i guess but you'd think they would overlap it by 1-2 months not 5 months. Hmm maybe you do have a good point.
Brad Linder said 7:54AM on 6-03-2009
It's 2009:
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/06/02/the-date-for-general-availability-ga-of-windows-7-is.aspx
epobirs said 6:44PM on 6-03-2009
I suspect system will have vouchers for a free Win7 upgrade in time for back to school sales. This is the traditional pattern for major new Windows releases.
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joyek9 said 7:21AM on 7-19-2009
I notice the release date of october is similar to the information being
circulated, that "Windows Live One Care" will not be supported after october 09. Can any one tell me is this synonmous are they connected in any way. I wonder if the utilities in One Care are to be part of Win7?
john
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