Bob Familiar, Architect Evangelist working for Microsoft, has posted a blog entry detailing next weeks MSDN Developer Conferences. The MSDN developer conferences take place across the United States from the 9th December through to the 19th February 2009.In the blog post Familiar states "attend an upcoming MSDN Developer Conference and you will receive a Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD". It's not clear whether this is post conference or during the conference itself. However another Microsoft employee, Keith Combs, has confirmed the DVDs will be available on the 13th January. Putting 1 and 1 together, and little birdies whispering from across the ocean, next years Consumer Electronics Show runs from the 8th January to the 11th so this would place beta 1 at the right time for a grand unveiling. Judging by the quality of 6801 Microsoft is well placed to release the beta as early as possible. Fellow Microsoft blogger Ed Bott believes Windows 7 beta 1 will feature at CES too.
The only slight hitch in Microsoft's plan? MacWorld. The conference runs from 5th January to 9th January and Steve Jobs is one of the keynote speakers. If Apple have been working overtime then they could release the highly anticipated Snow Leopard operating system and steal Microsoft's thunder.
Microsoft has always publicly stated that Beta 1 will be ready Q1 2009 so unveiling and releasing at CES fits perfectly within Q1 and is one of the best places to unveil a new operating system. In other Windows 7 related news, Chinese site it168 posted some recent photos of Windows 7 build 6956 obtained at WinHEC 2008 China which begins today.
Hope MS can generate a bit of positive hype this time around.
Now that they can actually deliver features, they can start talking about them!
In my (semi-disastrous) attempt at running both betas on my main machine back in the day, i remember xp beta 2 being much less stable than vista beta 2. NOTE: I had an ATI card, you know back when nvidia's WDDM drivers sucked megatons.
That being said Win7 on my main machine would be a no go. I heard that BF2 doesnt like it it seems.
Shame really.
sometimes a fall like vista is what is needed to correct ones self.
it is always Vista 2.0 , it is based on vista .!
vista rules
the point is windows doesn't came out nowhere improvement over previous release
I wants.
Snow Leopard is gonna probably be faster than Windows XP and look a so much better than Vista.
Yes they do; they just choose to name them after wildcats rather than greek letters.
Hehe
at what cost?
I really don't think Snow Leopard will make a Q1 release.
Apple will have something "else" to announce, though it might not be as early as MacWorld. But it'll be pretty significant, that's for sure.
Last edited by LTD on 03 Dec 2008 - 12:42
Im yet to get around to looking into the versions floating around already...
I have high hopes for both OS's, Windows 7 is shaping up to be a really good release as is Snow Leopard, it's great to see the OS world get out of the stagnation of a few years ago with hardly any releases and not much going on.
Well yeah because of the array of disappointing news Vista was to bring. It's like Microsoft didn't give consumers that good a reason to upgrade.
Thank you.
What bothers me is that there is Ultimate version and from this we can conclude that Win 7 will be in more versions, just like Vista.
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