Huge news out of Microsoft - Windows 7 is on track to be out in time for Holiday season 2009, and the RTM (release to manufacturing) will be in 3 months i.e. August 2009.
Brandon LeBlanc at the Windows 7 Team Blog says that RTM will be in 3 or so months -
If the telemetry we receive [...]
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Here are some interesting links related to Windows 7 –
The Engineering Windows 7 blog goes into details of how Disk Defragmentation has been improved in Windows 7.
Windows 7 Build 7025 screenshots leaked at a Chinese site. Based on this it seems that like Vista, 7 will ship in multiple versions including Home Basic, [...]
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Microsoft has made a good move – they’ve removed their rather stupid 2.5 million downloads limit (it was actually keys, not downloads). This means that pretty much anyone who wants to get and try Windows 7 can. The new restriction is that you should get your copy of Windows 7 before the 24th of January. [...]
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The beta of Windows 7 will be available world wide on Friday, the 9th of Jan, 2009.
Update: Jan 9th – Direct download links ( courtesy neowin ) -
Download: Windows 7 x86 (32bit) and x64 (64 bit). Microsoft was overwhelmed by traffic and delayed downloads from the official windows7 site – however these download links still [...]
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Microsoft has extended the availability of Windows XP – both the 32-bit XP SP3 and 64-bit XP SP2 – to June 2009. This is for a few reasons -
It gives system builders an additional 4 months to get their hands on XP.
A lot of PC companies are shipping PCs, laptops, and netbooks with XP rather than [...]
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A report from NPD Group Inc. has this to say -
Mac retail sales in the U.S. last month fell 1% from a year ago, even as sales of Windows PCs climbed 7%, market research company NPD Group Inc. reported today.
It’s an interesting trend – Apple had some really weak promotions for Black Friday – just [...]
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refurbished kindles for $329 back in stock (at amazon) – http://tinyurl.com/6mnqpy #
Microsoft is aiming to have the beta version of Windows 7 ready in time to show off for the Consumer Electronics Show in early January #
Mike Nash: MSDN and TechNet subscribers will have access to the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack [...]
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