Windows 7
Windows 7 might be up and running in time for Christmas
Windows 7 will be rolling out a new Windows genertion with touch sensitive screens this Autum which will end
use of the legendary mouse.
Microsoft announced it will roll out Windows 7, which will take the place of the unpopular Windows Vista,
from October 22.
The launch is months ahead of schedule and the operating system will be ready for Christmas buyers.
Nine out of ten of the world’s computers run on Windows software.
Last year the software giant made about a third of its £60bn income from selling the operating system.
Windows Vista has been attacked for being too complicated and Microsoft bosses hope the new system will
restore public confidence in the product.
Windows XP is not done yet
Windows XP is still going, the 30th of June was supposed to be the day XP died.
A YEAR AGO Microsoft announced that Windows XP was deader than Elvis Presley and yet for some reason
the operating system appears to still be going strong.
Based upon user complaints, the Vole kept XP going and even found it a new market in the netbook world.
Microsoft will have to convince those XP users that Windows 7 is worth the money. Otherwise some of them
might decide to jump to some of the more friendly XP-ish flavours of Linux instead.
New PC’s will be used for Windows 7
A market research company, has come up with the prophecy that when Windows 7 is released everyone
will rush out and buy a new PC to run it on is based on the idea that there is a lot of pent-up demand for
Windows because companies refused to buy Vista. But will Windows 7 slow the migration to Macs? and
will Windows 7 will have the steepest adoption curve of any new OS release since Windows 95?
Who knows we will cetanly be watching this space.
Windows 7 – Credit Crunching Free for a Year!
Microsoft have effectively given away Windows 7 free for a year with the launch of Release Candidate.
The Release Candidate is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and has gone on unlimited sale.
The software will not expire until 1 June 2010, giving testers more than a year’s free access to Windows 7.
The software includes all the features that will be available in the final version although it has been said that
the software is not the finished product yet and final tests and performance enhancements are still being made.
Windows 7 is due to go one sale in 2010 but some companies have been letting it slip that it will be out by October
2009? Microsoft have stuck to their prevous statements by saying it will not be out until 2010.