RSSMicrosoft ODM tells Bloomberg: Windows 7 coming as soon as September
By Nate Mook | Published February 25, 2009, 6:34 PM
While Microsoft continues to maintain that Windows 7 will launch "3 years from Vista," or early 2010, a Microsoft ODM partner says otherwise. The president of Compal, a Taiwanese manufacturer that builds laptops for HP and Acer, told Bloomberg that Microsoft may begin shipping Windows 7 in late September or early October of this year.
Ray Chen made the statement at an investors' conference in Taipei on Wednesday, adding that he hoped Windows 7 would help boost sagging PC sales due to the global economic crisis. Microsoft, for its part, didn't say Chen was incorrect, but repeated its January 2010 timeframe to Bloomberg. Who to believe? It's hard to say, although some signs have pointed to Microsoft fast-forwarding its release roadmap.
Betanews is seeking further clarification on the matter and will follow-up this story once we hear more.
I will be happy to own Windows 7. it is faster, nicer interface and has all the gadgets I have come to love. I am running the beta on a Lenovo R51 with 1.25 GB ram, and ended up using the XP version of the wireless drivers but hey, its a beta.
I Have used both MAC (version 7-X) and Linux (Linux Kernal 2.2-2.6). I have had Ubuntu on this very machine. I do notice that this POS computer I am using doesn't have the graphics that it needs for the generic Microsoft games, but it is sufficient in general purpose.
I don't hate mac, I have grown accustom to the Windows and Linux menus and would like each of them but I work on windows, so I use it more.
Haters just understand that you don't have to be a Sith (Your either with me or you are my enemy) to enjoy a computer. I don't care what you like. this one is good and as long as they keep it simple, I will like it very much.
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|I just feel really sorry for all you dudes lead down the garden path by M$. Get yourself a Mac and install boot camp. Then take the (1/100th) of the time to learn OSX well and you'll realize quite clearly why M$ has spent the last decade scrambling to do a superficial imitation. I still know plenty of folks who have never left Win2000 which gets the typical M$-style jobs done just as fast on *10 year old hardware* without the 10 tons of lipstick M$ has added trying to play catchup and while still retaining the guts of their outdated Goliath.
Not only do my Macs come standard with an ULTIMATE version of an OS (OSX) that really makes using a computer ENJOYABLE and painless - but they also run Windows (boot camp) better than any of the countless WinBoxes I have owned in the past. And this is really just the tip of the iceberg.
Many of you cling to Windows like flys because (a) you've invested unfathomable hours of your life trying to get along with the damn thing (b) you waste your life away on meaningless entertainment (games) and/or (c) you make good money from servicing the limitless downtrodden customers of broken Winstallations in which case your not unlike doctors who exploit their patients by prescribing poison to keep them chronically sick.
No comments please unless your not talking out your butt!
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|The "Mac" is a PC. The moment they allow me to run it on my PC, I'll think about it. Until then, they can keep their "pretty" hardware lock-in to themselves.
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|The sooner the better and they better release Windows 7 Ultimate on retail stores else I will stick with Vista Ultimate x64 because I don't wanna be a part of that PAY MORE GET MORE scheme!!
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|Win7 ultimate will be "upgrade" only (though I do believe there will be an OEM sku).
No idea concerning pricing yet though. They could still shoot themselves ion the foot over that one.
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|Didn't everyone already expect Win7 to be released this year? Wasn't the plan 2H2009?
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|Everything is showing that Windows 7 is just as slow as Vista, runs just as badly on netbooks. They were planning it to be better with UAC 90% turned off by default, but you nerds took away even that benefit and it will be released with aggressive UAC because of the commotion raised. Windows 7 is nothing more or less than Vista SP3. It will be fine, slightly better security than XP, much slower, but nothing special. Its a good thing that Wine and ReactOS have such low compatibility, because if people had any other choice that would run their software they wouldn't stick with these clowns who have spent 8 years and billions to make no significant improvements over XP.
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|You're clearly a "nerd" too if you're on this site and know what ReactOS and Wine are.
As a "nerd" I have to fix my friends windows XP computers constantly because they get destroyed by viruses. No such problem on vista. UAC is the best thing that ever happened to windows.
Run Vista x64 on a machine with 4GB. It beats the crap out of XP in performance. Windows 7, even more.
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|ReactOS is a joke and WINE makes most programs only partially functional (though it does strangely make some of them perform *better*).
Your comments regarding Windows 7 are pure BS. You've obviously not had any experience with it whatsoever. It works on lower hardware requirements and runs faster than Vista and XP going by recent benchmarks.
Put it this way: My 1.6Ghz single-core HP Pavillion with 1GB of RAM ran XP like a dog and wouldn't even *run* Vista. Windows 7, however, flies on it. It even enabled Aero on the highly questionable integrated ATI Mobility 200.
Troll somewhere else, junior.
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|I'll let you have everything else, but even I take issue with it being 'faster' than XP.
That's just not true.
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|hes no nerd if he thinks Windows 7 can't run on lower hardware spec systems, most of us have tried the OS on sub par systems and things run just fine, better than XP in some cases
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|Paul. It's actually not improbable by any means. I believe the reason that it seems faster, vs. maybe what benchmarks will tell you is the superfetch that W7 uses. It's better than Vistas and way better than XPs prefetch. What you get is a system that after a short period will snap programs up in no time flat, vs. a short wait on XP. I don't know what the benchmarks will say, since they generally don't test that sort of thing.
The point is, that I am willing to bet that if you put 2 identically speced' computers side by side designed for XP (So, lets say Athlon64 3500 with 2gb of RAM) and slap XP SP3 on one and Windows 7 on the other that the one that's running Windows 7 will be much faster to the naked eye, even though benchmarks MAY show different numbers. If a benchmark gives XP 100 and W7 90 or 80 (more is better), but really you're getting programs to start 2 or 3 (or more) seconds faster in general in W7 over XP, what are YOU going to care about more?
The naked eye after everything, is what counts - that's real world use and what matters.
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|@Paul:
Take issue all you want. UI response times, boot times, and application start times cover both the "subjective" and "quantitative" aspects where Windows 7 edges out (and sometimes completely spanks) windows XP.
There are still issues. Several areas can take up to 40% longer than in XP, but my giuess (and hope) is that they are working on these.
Google them yourself. Those benchmarks are damned near everywhere now.
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|You'd expect them to actually try to get it out before Christmas this time, so I'd suggest nearer October/early November is likely.
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|Vista WAS scheduled for the 4th quarter 2006 so it does make sense that they would release it in 4th quarter 2009. I'm just saying...
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|UPDATE: Microsoft is changing the name of Windows 7.
It's now called "Windows BS" and it's going to be released next week.
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|Man, I hope you don't make your living telling jokes...
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|hating too much douche bag?
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