According to Pocket Lint, Acer has confirmed that Windows 7 will be available on October 23 on their new all-in-one Z5600 PC. Acer has also confirmed that any Vista based PC purchased 30 days prior will receive a free upgrade to Windows 7. While we still don't have an official release date from Microsoft yet, and even though there has been an internal release date of January 30, 2010 set, rumors have been flying around saying that Windows 7 may be released sometime later this year.
With the public release of the release candidate right around the corner, and development towards the RTM already on track, it's possible that Acer's release date could be true.
This week, Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Veghte told Paul Thurrott that "a holiday release is accomplishable."
What do you think, Neowin? Could Acer's date signal a possible release date for Windows 7, or is it still to early to tell yet?
BTW, you'll see other OEMs to market with Windows 7 machines sooner than this.
Yes, with the RC already out (and the public release coming in a few days), I'd be really surprised if if took them until end of next January to release Rtm.
It took then about five months from Beta to RC, and it shouldn't take them any more from RC to Rtm (rather less).
RC - End of April...BINGO!
RTM - End of July (a showstopper would means beginning of August, but I don't see that happening)
On store shelves in September (or OCT, depending on OEM) in time for Christmas shopping season.
Vista was the second pass at rewriting everything from the ground up and it still wasn't 100% baked when it came out of the oven in Nov/Jan.
But, like XP, Windows 7 is a polish of a previous codebase (Vista), which is why I've been telling people since last year what the release schedule will be...and why I've been dead on.
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What's sad is that people will judge the speed of Windows 7 based on these OEM installs that are filled with their garbage and have 17 apps run at Startup even though they're not needed. Like all the e[insert bloatware name here] stuff. LaunchManager? Who needs something like that? eFramework Empowering Technology? What the heck!!
Microsoft should crack down on these OEMs a little more.
And, yes, I've owned Acer PCs. Yes, their software "features" are crapware. But since they build 'em, they have the right to send them out the door however they see fit.
You don't like 'em, don't buy 'em.
Build it yourself = whatever you want.
I remember reading that they are trying to do something about it. The new taskbar notification is one way they are addressing this issue. There might be something in MS new agreement about keeping the desktop completely clear aside form the Recycle bin.
+1
Not to mention October 23 will be in time for the lucrative holiday shopping season, which Microsoft missed with Windows Vista.
But:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/windows_timeline.htm
So it may be possible....
On a personal note, I love Vista. I see that there is nothing wrong with it. It works perfect and has not given me any errors. But I point out something from that page I just linked:
November 1999 Windows Millennium Edition Beta 2
September 2000 Windows Me
October 2000 Windows Whistler Beta 1
March 2001 Windows XP Beta 2
June 2001 Windows XP RC 1
July 2001 Windows XP RC 2
August 2001 Windows XP RTM
October 25, 2001 Windows XP Home and Professional
See a small connection between this and the Windows Vista and Windows 7 transition?
If anything, Win7's even more ready for RTM than the Whistler RC's were.
And, BTW, I also love Vista. It's "problems", as far as I'm concerned, are largely a product of perception (though I do think there were some legitimate concerns on the enterprise side). Vista was really an interim release, though. Win7 is really the platform they wanted to move to in the first place.
I've been running the beta, I've installed the RC on my main, production machine (off a torrent!), and I'm seriously impressed.
If you ignore than it had two Betas and two RCs, we could very well have Win7 Rtm in August and Retail in October.
They're just pushing out RC candidates to tease people with a non-finalized product.. kind of like a movie trailer of sorts and whatever bugs people find in the RC candidates they'll be added to Service Pack fixes.
They're just pushing out RC candidates to tease people with a non-finalized product.. kind of like a movie trailer of sorts and whatever bugs people find in the RC candidates they'll be added to Service Pack fixes.
Ive also heard that I have rewritten all the Windows source code and will sell it to Bill and he will release it as Windows 8.
They're just pushing out RC candidates to tease people with a non-finalized product.. kind of like a movie trailer of sorts and whatever bugs people find in the RC candidates they'll be added to Service Pack fixes.
I hope your joking. Rc means release candidate . So if it has no huge bugs it could become the actual release version.
Most likely some small bugs will be fixed but other then that there should be no huge changes to windows 7 between rc and gold.
Most likely some small bugs will be fixed but other then that there should be no huge changes to windows 7 between rc and gold.
I know what RC means. Believe me .. I know what RC means.
That's just what I'm saying.
They've polished it to a "final" version they're going to release, and whatever bugs people find in the RC and RTM versions, they're going to be service pack fixes.
i received this in an email just today. here is your answer;
The final engineering milestone is the release to manufacturing (RTM), typically 3-5 months after the RC. We believe the product is high quality and to date have received very positive feedback. This might result in RTM delivery before the 3-5 months timeframe. Ultimately, you'll decide the quality and assess the delivery once you download and use the RC. Customer and partner feedback will determine how quickly we release.
I'll have to agrre on the "high quality".
So does that mean we might be seeing Rtm beginning of July already? Very nice.
The final engineering milestone is the release to manufacturing (RTM), typically 3-5 months after the RC. We believe the product is high quality and to date have received very positive feedback. This might result in RTM delivery before the 3-5 months timeframe. Ultimately, you'll decide the quality and assess the delivery once you download and use the RC. Customer and partner feedback will determine how quickly we release.
Interesting...
But thought this was interesting:
With this release, we are focused on verifying that all the changes and fixes we made based on the beta tests and feedback are working correctly. We do that by gathering the automatically generated information (called telemetry) that your PC sends us when you use Windows 7 RC. Telemetry tells us when your computer hangs, crashes, or has performance issues, and what applications or devices you were using when you experienced problems. It is important that we gather this data from thousands of different hardware configurations to confirm that the fixes we included based on beta feedback work on a wide range of hardware. It will also help us identify any new problems.
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