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Windows 7: Windows 7 Release Date Announced
- 6/2/09 1:32 PM
Windows 7 Release Date Announced
by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM] - 6/2/09 1:32 PM
The official word on timing for Windows 7 has come to the world...
October 22, 2009.
For more info, check out the articles below:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090602-711873.html
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217701330&subSection=News
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/165965/windows_7_will_ship_oct_22.html
Cheers!
(NT) Thanks Ron, good news.
by Jonmor68 - 6/2/09 3:15 PM In reply to: Windows 7 Release Date Announced by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM]
Windows 7 Blog
by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM] - 6/3/09 9:17 AM
In reply to: (NT) Thanks Ron, good news. by Jonmor68
Sure thing! Thought I’d just get that out here for the community. I’ve had a lot of fun interacting with the people here and wanted to make sure they saw this.
Also, here’s the link to the Windows 7 Team blog – great place to stay tuned to: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/default.aspx
Cheers,
Ron
Windows Outreach Team
Great
by datatrond - 7/10/09 10:29 AM In reply to: (NT) Thanks Ron, good news. by Jonmor68I am very excited to go from Windows Vista to Windows 7, but I have heard that I have to reinstall and cannot upgrade it as in earlier versions. Is this true?
NOT true...
by John.Wilkinson
- 7/10/09 11:33 AM
In reply to: Great by datatrond
Windows XP users must perform a clean install, but you, as a Windows Vista user, can perform a standard upgrade, as you have likely done in the past.
John
good news.
by FrankQC - 6/3/09 5:57 PM In reply to: Windows 7 Release Date Announced by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM]
Except before I get Windows 7 I'm still going to wait until it's out for at least a year... so that the first wave of buyers can report their bugs. Once most of the 'major' bugs are fixed I might try it. If I don't feel like it, Windows Vista still does the trick :P
The ol' 'wait around and see'
by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM] - 6/4/09 3:54 PM
In reply to: good news. by FrankQC
I can understand that. At least you're not going with the ostrich approach.
Cheers,
LOL
by FrankQC - 6/4/09 3:59 PM In reply to: The ol' 'wait around and see' by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM]
nope :P
I'm gonna let the first wave of buyers report all the bugs. so that when I'm going to use it, it will be less buggy 
Isn't that why they have a Beta and Release candidate
by orlbuckeye - 6/5/09 10:07 AM In reply to: LOL by FrankQCbeing tested by the public?
ok if that was the case
by FrankQC - 6/5/09 10:15 AM In reply to: Isn't that why they have a Beta and Release candidate by orlbuckeyeWhy did Vista have lots of problems?
You can't expect people to get rid of all the problems during the RC. It takes many years to make an OS very stable and mature. RC is just to get rid of the main usage problems.
Where's the perfect OS?
by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM] - 6/5/09 11:07 AM
In reply to: ok if that was the case by FrankQC
Kidding, kidding...
Yeah, the Beta and RC periods weed out lots of issues, but the fact is you can't catch everything because not everyone has used the new OS for the types of everyday computing they do.
That said, you can see where people are having really good experiences with Windows 7, people who generally aren't incredibly computer-savvy are even enjoying it.
I (and this is my personal opinion and no one else's) think that you'll see a pretty smooth transition here.
Cheers,
Yea.
by FrankQC - 6/5/09 11:21 AM In reply to: Where's the perfect OS? by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM]
They made it easy to use and so far the feedback is great.
Question: Could you comment on the startbar? It looks awfully like KDE?
p.s. @ the perfect OS: If there was a perfect OS everyone would be using it :P
Trying it now
by mrskelly - 6/6/09 9:51 AM In reply to: Windows 7 Release Date Announced by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM]
I have an HP that had Vista Home premium on it that I hated with a passion, so I backed up all my important photos and docs then downloaded Windows 7 to try. The computer's already acting much better. It only has a gig of ram, but it doesn't feel like it's going to crash every five minutes. Since it's not my main working computer I've decided to put nothing but freeware apps on it for everything from composing music to editing videos. We'll see how it goes.
Thanks for sharing!
by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM] - 6/8/09 1:54 PM
In reply to: Trying it now by mrskelly
Glad you’re liking the RC (even with only 1GB of RAM, no less).
Hope things continue to be good for you. Did you see the announcement about general availability for Windows 7 yet?
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/06/02/the-date-for-general-availability-ga-of-windows-7-is.aspx.
Cheers,
W7 outing
by mrskelly - 6/8/09 2:36 PM In reply to: Thanks for sharing! by RonS [WINDOWS-TEAM]
I've seen it. I hope there isn't a half dozen flavors of it like Vista. Although I hated home premium, I have ultimate on another laptop and it's no problem. I'm waiting for W7 to come out on a netbook before getting one.
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