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Windows 7 shipping in September?
Posted by: Nelson Abalos | Thu, Feb 26, 2009

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I’ve been testing Microsoft Windows 7 Beta for the last few months.  It’s pretty solid. Just got news today that PC contractor Compal (Acer, HP, etc…) will be building systems with Windows 7 and shipping in September.

“According to current planning, it should be late September or early October,” said Ray Chen, president of Taipei-based Compal Electronics Inc. the maker of laptop personal computers for Hewlett-Packard Co. and Acer Inc.

Back in April 2008 Bill gates said that they would have a new operating system ready in a year.  I’m actually really confident in this because I feel that this OS is solid with just minor bugs which are being ironed out as you read this.  Microsoft dominates 90% of the market but has been losing points in the last couple of years to Mac. They need this operating system to come out now. Yes technically it’s supposed to be released 3 years after Vista was launched but what can you do when you have something a lot better sitting on a shelf?


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  • http://www.twitter.com/orangeslurpee Brian

    Okay, now I would really like to see this happen. I wanted to test drive it on my laptop, but Microsoft was nice enough to warn people not to download it on a primary computer. Now, I really want Windows 7, but I don’t have the money to buy a new laptop (and I don’t think I want to put a new operating system on my current laptop, because it’s Dell Inspiron 1501 – aka not made anymore).

    But, getting out of my rant, I’m happy for the new release, and I hope Microsoft starts off on a good foot this time (I’d still buy Vista, even with all the negative press).

  • http://www.pixelatedgeek.com Fillmatic

    Brian,

    I’m glad you feel that way. I’ve been getting crap all day because of this article. Windows 7 is great. There’s a lot of people saying “Yeah, I’ve tried it and it sucks.” I call them liars. Everyone I’ve let mess with windows 7 has liked it. If you have a Vista Certified computer and you run Windows 7 you will be ecstatic about the performance boost.

    Vista is a pig, but I have 2 vista computers that run just fine. I’ve had vista running for over a year on my daily rig without virus software, windows firewall or windows update (seriously I hadn’t updated till yesterdsay since 12/02/07) and I have no problems and no crashes.

    Anyway, thanks for the input!

  • akryan

    I’m totally with you fillmatic. I think that all the Vista hate has just been due to an echo chamber effect. People keep saying Vista is terrible and people just start repeating it. They start to assume any and everything that goes wrong with their computer is due to Vista. Part of that falls on the MS marketing dept. Those “I’m an Apple, I’m a PC” ads have been very effective. No one wants to be a fat dork. It was months before MS gave any response at all to those. My experience with Vista has been fine. My entire family has Vista systems and they haven’t given us any trouble at all. The Office 2007 suite was a little irritating because it has such a different interface than 2003, but now that I have I love it. Excel 2007 interfaces with some really powerful stats programs seemlessly.

  • dragon01

    “Windows XP is still king of the hill.” as per this article (test)

    http://internetcommunications.tmcnet.com/news/2009/01/22/3934136.htm

  • http://www.michaelflanakin.com/Weblog/tabid/142/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1093/A-Plea-for-IE.aspx Michael Flanakin

    A Plea for IE…

    …

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