Windows 7 Gets Official Release Date: October 22

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Windows 7 will indeed be hitting in time for the holiday season. The much-buzzed about operating system is set to inherit the operating system throne from the much-maligned Windows Vista, with general commercial availability starting on October 22 according to a Microsoft press release aired today.

Previous reports had come quite close to pegging the release date, with October 23 being the cited date in many reports. Bill Veghte, senior vice president for Microsoft's Windows, helped announced the true date, stating, "We feel confident that we will deliver Windows 7 with our partners on Oct. 22."

Microsoft faces tremendous pressure with the release. The company has been hounded by its investors in recent months for revenue drops related to the recession. These investors are quick to note that Windows Vista, while a solid seller, failed to surpass Windows XP.

Despite these problems, Vista and other Windows operating systems accounted for roughly 30 percent of the company's $60B USD in sales in 2008. Windows-based operating systems are currently installed on approximately 90 percent of the world's personal computers.

For Microsoft, the finalized release date represents both good news and bad. The good news is it will make the lucrative holiday shopping season, a frequent time for people to buy new systems. The bad news is that it will miss the equally lucrative back-to-school shopping season, where parents and college students typically purchase systems.

Microsoft does face some pressure, too -- Apple will be releasing its Snow Leopard OS sometime this summer or fall, and Google recently announced that its Android OS was coming to netbooks, courtesy of Acer. The challenges, for now, though are limited -- Windows 7 will almost certainly lead these next generation operating systems in sales.
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This OS is the reason i'm makeing a new pc, having trouble finding a low priced duel core though that supports Virtualization Technology for XP mode though :(. I hope to god its not more expensive than vista when the price is announced :mad:.
 
I really really really really really hope they bork the 'upgrade' disks to that they can actually be a full clean install like they did with Vista. Ive been on 7 since the early leaked betas... dont want to go back to XP :(
 
Any word on when we'll be able to buy machines with free upgrades to 7 like they did with the launch of vista?
 
Given the current market conditions (IT budgets shrinked!) I expect M$ to go for VOLUME and not PRICE since there is a huge gap between XP -> Win 7 with the Vista adoption being limited. 7 has some nice selling points IMO, bitlocker for example. Something every workstation "exposed" should have nowadays.

Is their "chance" to kill XP for good and yes, it is all about price this time :) (good for us!)
 
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I would have thought in this day and age 64 bit has to be the main platform and 32bit for backup?
Surely all machines nowa days are coming with 4gb memory as standard
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Most machines i see in stores come loaded to 3gb D:, maybe i just look in the ghetto stores.
 
It’s good news they finally have a date. This ties in nicely for my October system upgrade.

I’ve only had time for quick play around with W7 and it looks and feels quite impressive butt then again I’ve not had too many quirks about Vista to be honest. Although irritating at times, I find the driver database such a breath of fresh air over XP. However, Microsoft aren’t exactly doing themselves any favours by saying they’ll support XP to 2014. This isn’t going to make people jump.. Sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand sooner rather than later otherwise there will be people still using XP in 2018.. By then it will be 15 years old (I think).
 
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