RSSWindows 7 to be released October 22
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published June 2, 2009, 2:33 PM
The news comes in advance of comments being planned for the Computex conference in Taiwan early tomorrow morning, by Microsoft Corporate Vice President for OEMs Steve Guggenheimer. There he is scheduled to officially deliver the news that Windows 7 general availability worldwide will begin on Thursday, October 22.
Microsoft's spokesperson gave Betanews a heads-up to expect comments from Guggenheimer concerning a program being called Windows Upgrade Option. That's precisely the title of an FAQ that was leaked to the public last month by the technology blog TechARP. That FAQ, which appeared to contain language directly from Microsoft, spoke about a low- or no-cost upgrade option for recent purchasers of consumer SKUs of Windows Vista.
If we'll learn tomorrow what kind of discounts are being offered, it's very likely we'll also hear the final suggested retail pricing for all Windows 7 SKUs.
"If we'll learn tomorrow what kind of discounts are being offered, it's very likely we'll also hear the final suggested retail pricing for all Windows 7 SKUs."
I'd surmise it'd be double the price of Windows Vista.
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|"I'd surmise it'd be double the price of Windows Vista."
...and you'd be an imbecile.
Vista pricing was in-line with XP, Win7 will be in-line with Vista. They bump it a little each time.
SSDD.
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|for all the hard work scott fulton does for betanews,
he should have received an all expense paid trip to the conference in taiwan.
desk chair reporting seems so meaningless and un-fullfilling.
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|Windows XP is good enough for me. I don't interact with the OS too much, aside of switching tasks and copying files here and there. For addt'l user power I turn to third party apps... xplorer2, acdsee pro, nero, truecrypt, winamp, snagit, photoshop, etc... If I wasn't such a huge pirate then most likely Windows 7 or even Mac would be more sexy to me.
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|"If I wasn't such a huge pirate then most likely Windows 7 or even Mac would be more sexy to me."
Wow. Brutal honesty. Gotta love it.
A5t elast your reasoning is *far* more sound than most. :p
(FWIW: You can probably pirate Win7 and *still* run all those apps if you have anywhere near a decent system...Win7 runs circles around most people's perceptions of Vista performance issues)
...not that I support piracy at all... ;)
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|Vista is a huge pain to pirate (if you wanna keep the system updated with security patches) so I believe Windows 7 will be just as difficult if not worse. I'm not talking about the initial rip-off. I'm talking about the system detecting itself as pirated every few weeks/months. And I need the Genuine Advantage s*** (or whatever they now renamed it to) cuz lotsa free MS stuff requires to pass it before you can download... Of course you can always spend time to bypass everything -- but time is money, and annoying unnecessary waste of time is even more expensive.
Thank God Windows XP lasted so many years. And thank God Vista only lasted a few (junky half-baked OS). Hopefully Windows 7 will be another WinXP success, in that I mean that MS won't release another OS after Windows 7 for 5-6 years and techies and homeboys alike will completely love it.
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|Doubt you'll get your wish.
Prior to Vista MSFT was on a standard release/dev cycle of ~3 years. They have stated many times they are going back tot hat.
The 5-6 year XP-Vista thing was an aberration.
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|likely that whatever price is suggested soon and for october, it will be relative to the state of our economics, personal and institutional wise.
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|It will go RTM next month. Time for crap os x to RIP LOL
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|Wow...Yer right... I forgot it was June already.
Though technically it's the last two weeks of July, so it's just over a month. :p
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|Will Windows 7 RTM be available on Technet anytime soon with a subscription?
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|Fat Daddy: RTM->Technet/MSDN subscribers
The answer is YES but don't know the exact date, it should be July 22; not sure though
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|I hope fax and scan is back in ALL of them, stupid to leave that small item out of ANY version, and yeah I also feel that with W7 out so soon after Vista, they should make it another "windows update" lol
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|So soon? Vista was released in November 2006 and Windows 7 in October of 2009. That's three years. Apple has released 28 paid upgrades during this time.
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|They probably removed to to avoid any issues with folks like "WinFax".
If it's not in Home premium, it'll be in Business and Ultimate. Ultimate OEM should only cost $180 (I figure Home Premium plus any decent faxing solution would probably be the same or more).
"I also feel that with W7 out so soon after Vista,"
Take a look at past release cycles for MSFT. The XP->Vista was inordinately long...the rest were all in line with Vista->Win7. Nothing new, but people do seem to have short memories lately...(The price of the ADD generation)
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|lol. vista was barely usable in November 2006. It wasn't until April 2007 that I would begin to call it a stable OS, and even then if you used ATI graphics cards only.
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|What are you talking about man? I've been using Vista Ultimate 64bit from day one and about the only issue I ever had back then was really slow file transfers between computers on my home network, and that got fixed. I know there were more, but that's all I felt. C'mon - give credit where it's due.
Vista is no where close to as horrible as it's hype with a good computer running it (dual core with 4gb of ram, at least).
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|Excuse the double post! Wish there was a 'delete post' option.
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|Winfax is long gone. Doesn't exist. Never made for Vista. Not much fax software for Vista period.
Ethelred
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|lol true, i seem to have bad memory :(
hopefully microsoft will do the ultimate steal deal with win7.
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|I'll wait until I see a pirate ship in the distance, then scream "parlee!!"
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|*laughing*
It's "parlay", you dweeb. :p
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|nice, def looking forward to buying a copy.... been years since i've 'bought' a copy of windows, at least i got my moneys worth:)
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|I bought a copy of Vista Ultimate OEM x64 last year, almost wish I didn't now with Windows 7 right around the corner. :(
It's been working pretty good for me mind you, but since I already got Vista I'm gonna skip 7 and wait for 8 :s
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|Honestly: don't.
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|Do.
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|Uh, dont.
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|No seriously, don't. Even the six week old release of RC1 7100 is ridiculously good. Install it free of charge and try it for up to nearly a full year if you want. *Then* make a decision. Just a suggestion.
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|They should give anyone who had the misfortune of getting Vista a free copy of the Ultimate, Super, Ultra, Extra, Touch Me edition, or whatever their outrageously overpriced version is called. What is there seven versions now? LOL.
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|Technically, including N versions and etc., there are *less* overall versions of Windows 7 vs. Vista.
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|He know, ir0nwolf...he knows.
Windows 7 will come in six flavors: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise.
The N is not available in all areas, all versions have 32 and 64 bit flavors. If you cannot look at the feature sets and are confused by the names...you probably shouldn't be using a computer.
Home, Pro and Ultimate will be the *only* versions available at Retail. Ultimate will be *limited availability. OEM Systems will likely come with Home or Ultimate.
The upshot is that at retail, the consumer will basically have only two choices: Home and Pro...just like they did with XP.
*laughing*
Hey, fathead...what flavor of BSD is OSX again?
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|"Hey, fathead...what flavor of BSD is OSX again?"
*laughing*
Skewered!
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