Windows 7 comes out October 22

This is one of those posts where I’m truly excited to be writing. I get to tell you when Windows 7 will be on store shelves! According to input from customers and partners we’ve made a lot of progress with Windows 7.

Our milestone-to-milestone approach for Windows 7 is built on a great deal of feedback from customers and testers. This has been pivotal to the development of Windows 7.

I blogged a few weeks ago that it’s looking like we’ll have Windows 7 ready in time for the holidays.

Since then we’ve made enough progress to feel really good about announcing today that Windows 7 will be in stores beginning October 22nd.

I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to see Windows 7 sitting on store shelves!

Some people may not be able to wait for Windows 7 to arrive before having to order a new PC (like parents who are sending their sons or daughters off to school who need of a PC to take with them). Fortunately, there is no need to wait. Soon, customers will be able to take advantage of the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program. This program enables participating retailers and OEMs to offer a special deal to upgrade to Windows 7 for customers purchasing a qualifying PC. I’ll be doing another blog post about this program with a date and more details when we get closer to availability.

Obviously, Release To Manufacturing (RTM) is an important milestone on the path to GA. We anticipate that we’ll be able to make the RTM code for Windows 7 available to our partners sometime in the 2nd half of July. We also expect to be able to make RTM code for Windows Server 2008 R2 available to our partners in this time frame as well.

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wow, it went from a year, to 8 months, to 4 months. MS devs must be doing speed or something. they striped the time of release down by 60% in 2 weeks.
still no price though? hm, i think i'd pay for it anyway (in bandwidth haha, j/k)
dont think i'd go over the $250 mark, though.

Well, that is good news Although my top price will be around $150.00CAD for the upgrade version. I may be out of line on that price, but GNU/Linux always beckons with the siren call of Freedom!

Do you think they'll stick by the June 1, 2010 release candidate end date? Surely they won't cut it short since it's releasing quicker than expected.

Damn I want it too, but not willing to give out to much cash for it, it is much better then VISTA.

kinda old news

this explained when it was to rear its head, a month ago

Windows 7 : Available October 23

given that this was happening... i really had/have no hope of it waiting out longer in my hopes of making sure its worthy of release. MS is again painting themselves in a corner imo. Of course, i have to hope for the best, and hope they have a darn good coffee maker.

If its even $500, hey I'll pay $500. After all, I wasn't stupid enough to buy Vista , so I've saved