More Guesses of Windows 7 Releasing in October
They seem to all think it'll be in October.
Now that we know that Windows 7 will be hitting us sometime this year in final form, now all the questions are aimed at narrowing down the date.
We heard from Acer executives that Windows 7 will be out on October 23, which sounds plausible, but there’s no other evidence to back it up. Today we have a couple other new entries in the guessing game.
Gathering statements made by Microsoft employees and charting it on a calendar, ComputerWorld figures that Windows 7 will hit RTM (release to manufacturing) on August 11. The magazine believes that if Microsoft follows the same schedule it set for Windows XP, the new OS should be out on October 11.
The next guess comes from long-time Windows journalist Paul Thurrott, who wrote in the final part of his Windows 7 RC review, “Microsoft also says it will finalize Windows 7 in mid-August and deliver it to the public in time for the 2009 holiday season. I can tell you, however, that the general availability date is a lot more specific than that: You'll be able to get the final version of Windows 7 publicly on October 15, 2009, according to the current schedule.”
While we don’t have any hard dates yet, and we won’t until Microsoft is ready to tell, it looks like everyone is betting on making it out well before Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S.
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I hated Vista when it was first released, I had just bought a computer with a 915GM Chip set. It rendered it useless for Vista... But After I got a newer computer with a newer Chip set and ran at around 4gb or ram I had ZERO problems with Vista other then the annoying reluctance of trying to do anything and always having that damn message pop up and say "are you sure you want to do this" I mean shit, I clicked it didn't I !? Thank god that on 7 you can control that annoying useless feature. I will buy it just for that!!!
@PC_GI:
You can remove that on Vista too. Not that I support the use of Vista over 7. UAC can be controlled to a better extent certainly.
@PC_GI:You can remove that on Vista too. Not that I support the use of Vista over 7. UAC can be controlled to a better extent certainly.
I would like to know how to do that! That sounds like that would make my day for sure!
I would like to know how to do that! That sounds like that would make my day for sure!
You can disable UAC but it's not advisable. It just more than just those annoying pop-ups. http://www.tweakhound.com/vista/tweakguide/page_5.htm
Norton labs has a very useful tool for the Vista UAC: -
http://www.nortonlabs.com/inthelab/uac.php
it prompts you just like normal but gives you the option to remember your choice so won't ask again.
Then again I'm on W7 now and do like the extra control.
First thing to do after installing vista..Turn the dam UAC OFF.
Then turn of file indexing.(much less hdd thrashing around)
Get rid of system restore.(never has worked well for me in the past,waste of disc space)
IMO.
You guys are so silly, it's funny how some of you have not even given vista chance. Vista and windows 7 is almost the same thing and give the same issue. I know this because I use both currently. Windows 7 is not that amazing compared to windows vista. UAC can be turned off, if you actually used the OS you could have known that. windows 7 just look pretty but it is the same thing. Apple fans and users only made everyone think that vista was really that bad. So Microsoft came up with windows 7 and give it a new look and you guys just fall for it like little babies. games are a little slower on windows 7, even if you have all the drivers for the os. I want to see what it actually does when the final release comes out.