Windows 7 By Paul Thurrott
By Paul Thurrott
Last week, Microsoft announced that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be released to manufacturing (RTM) in the second half of July and will be made generally available to customers on October 22, 2009. This date is almost exactly one year after Windows 7's public unveiling at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference 2008 last October and well before the original timeframe Microsoft had allotted for its release.
As most of you are well aware, I've been evaluating Windows 7 since last year. Actually, maybe "evaluating" isn't the right word: I've been using Windows 7 day to day on all of my production PC hardware, giving up Windows XP and Vista almost entirely, since late 2008. And in this time, I've never run into any major issues, on any of the many, many PCs with which I've used Windows 7. This has been the most uneventful OS beta in Microsoft's history, from what I can tell.
In fact, I'd go so far to say that Windows 7 has brought the NT mojo back to Microsoft's desktop OS, and in a big way. (Side note: The Server team never lost its mojo.) And this is a big deal, as any NT old-timer could tell you.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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