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Microsoft mistakenly reveals 2009 launch target for Windows 7, again
Engadget —
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsIf you haven't figured it out by now, Microsoft has two release dates for Windows 7: early 2010 according to its corporate PR stooges and sometime around mid 2009 according to everyone else. The reason for the padding is a fairly transparent attempt to avoid the public opinion fiasco resulting from Vista's chronic delays. Now Ina Fried over at CNET has it from Microsoft Director, Doug Howe, that Windows 7 should be ready for general consumption by the 2009 holidays. According to Fried, Howe's ...
Linkpost | 11.7.2009
TechBlog —
... November 07, 2008 Linkpost | 11.7.2009 • Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season - In WinHEC session, Microsoft exec confirms the goal is to get Win7 on PCs next year. • ...
Looks like Microsoft wants Windows 7 out the door in time for Christmas 2009
CrunchGear —
... Did you hear the news? Microsoft is looking to ship Windows 7, its Hail Mary of sorts, by mid-2009, with the goal of having it pre-installed on most machines by the holiday shopping season. ...
It's Official: Windows 7 Shipping Mid-2009 [Microsoft]
Gizmodo —
... all sort of known that Windows 7 would be released in 2009, but Microsoft made the firmest statements to date on the topic. In a technical session on Thursday, the company outlined that Windows 7 software would ship mid-year 2009 with pre-configured Windows 7 systems shipping in time for the 2009 holiday season. It's also reported that those listening very closely during the presentation could hear the soft but violent shattering of Microsoft employee vacation plans everywhere. [CNET] ...
Windows 7. Coming for Holiday 2009 Season. Probably.
Technologizer —
windows7-logo Over at CNET News, Ina Fried is reporting that Microsoft is pretty much admitting that it intends to ship Windows 7 in time for it to land on PCs that are available for next year’s holiday season . Even without that new information, simple logic would tend to lead to that conclusion. The OS still needs enough polishing that it’s hard to imagine it shipping that much before the holidays, and Microsoft doesn’t want to repeat the slippage that led to Windows Vista shipping at the worst possible time: right after the holiday PC-buying rush. (That delay gave Vista ...
Windows 7 Will Ship Mid-2009 [Windows 7]
Lifehacker —
[image] CNET reports that Windows 7 will ship mid-year 2009 , just in time to find its place under the tree on pre-configured machines by the 2009 holiday season. After taking a look at our ...
Windows 7 scheduled for a mid-2009 release
Download Squad —
... Microsoft has all but confirmed that the company is hoping to ship Windows 7 in time for next year's holiday season. In the past Microsoft has said the next generation Windows operating system would be available about three years after Windows Vista's January 2007 release. But CNET reports that a Microsoft official is confirming that things appear to be ahead of schedule. ...
Roundup: Windows 7 to ruin Christmas, Craigslist cleans up, Pandora’s troubles and more
VentureBeat —
... Microsoft aiming Windows 7 for 2009 year end — Windows 7, the successor to Vista, should be out in time for Christmas next year. ...
Windows 7 to arrive by 2009 holiday season
Between the Lines —
... Expect to see Windows 7 right around this time next year. [image] CNET reports that during a technical session at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft director Jim Howe gave a presentation that seemed to confirm that Windows 7 will be on PCs by next year’s holiday season. ( ...
Windows 7 coming mid 2009
Boing Boing Gadgets —
So there you go: Microsoft's promising Windows 7 by mid-2009, with pre-configured PCs hitting by the Holiday Season. That means summer will have two big OS releases on both side of the camp: Snow Leopard for Macheads and Windows 7 for PC users. Let's hope the close juxtaposition of releases doesn't make any one of them look the poorer (prediction: it will.)
Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season [CNET]
The new rules for calculating Windows ship dates
All about Microsoft —
... — anywhere from mid-year to Q3. At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week, one Microsoft exec told session attendees publicly that Windows 7 is tracking to be released to manufacturing in mid-2009 , so as to enable back-to-school preloads. Windows officials have been trying to dampen expectations so that if they ship in 2009, they’ll be considered to have delivered early. If they hit their worst-case date, they’ll still be “on time.” The Windows team already showed its hand here with Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Publicly, the company (once it acknowledged the ...
Confirmed: Windows 7 scheduled for Mid 2009 Release
COGADGET —
... that Windows 7 will be available to public by Mid 2009 with pre-configured Windows 7 systems shipping in time for the 2009 holiday season. Microsoft has previously said the next generation Windows operating system would be available about three years after Windows Vista’s January 2007 release. But CNET reports that Microsoft Director, Doug Howe, that Windows 7 should be ready by as early as 2009 holidays. ...
Messenger email: more hints at a Windows Live Search rebrand
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... For what it’s worth, we’re all for a return to the Windows Live Search name. Even though internally Live Search remains separate from Windows Live (and we’re hearing that there are no immediate plans to change that), consolidating the brand externally just seems like the right thing to do. We expect a big marketing push for Windows 7 and Windows Live leading up to next year’s back to school and holiday shopping season, and Live Search is sorely in need of all the marketing help it can get. ...
Microsoft, Amazon take different paths to cloud caching
All about Microsoft —
... ; and the Velocity initiative focused on getting Windows OEMs to improve customers’ out-of-the-box experience with new Windows PCs.)
Once more, with feeling: Microsoft says isn’t making its own phone
All about Microsoft —
... , the companies said, to make Windows Mobile the primary platform that LG will support, going forward. It’s key to notice what Microsoft officials aren’t saying in all this. Lees is saying Microsoft is currently not in the business of making its own phones. He did not say Microsoft will never make a Microsoft-branded phone. But for the next couple of years, the Softies are going to continue to rely on third party hardware makers in the smartphone space, the same way they are in the PC space . And just as in the PC space, Microsoft is getting a lot more hands-on about ...
