{"id":1489,"date":"2009-06-02T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1489-windows-7-july-rtm-october-22-launch.html"},"modified":"2009-06-02T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:37:09","slug":"windows-7-july-rtm-october-22-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1489-windows-7-july-rtm-october-22-launch.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7: July RTM, October 22 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

News is drifting out<\/a> that Microsoft intends to launch Windows 7 \u2013 that is, have PCs with it pre-loaded on retail sale – on October 22.<\/p>\n

Not unexpected news \u2013 it is exactly what many of us predicted<\/a> last year, after seeing it at PDC \u2013 but it is good to have it confirmed and will help users considering PC purchase decisions. There should be an announcement very soon about free upgrade offers, where you but a PC with Vista now, and get a free upgrade to 7 when available.<\/p>\n

By the way, there\u2019s a further gallery of Windows 7 images<\/a> up on the Guardian Technology site. This is not just more of the same: I included some of the less publicised corners of the new OS, such as the new-but-not-improved Movie Maker, PowerShell scripting, and the option to remove Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n

Update: An official announcement is here<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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Microsoft will deliver Release to Manufacturing (RTM) code to partners in the second half of July. Windows 7 will become generally available on Oct. 22, 2009, and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be broadly available at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve also amended the title of this post to remove the ambiguity between \u201cWindows: 7 July\u201d and \u201cWindows 7: July\u201d \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: windows 7<\/a>,microsoft<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News is drifting out that Microsoft intends to launch Windows 7 \u2013 that is, have PCs with it pre-loaded on retail sale – on October 22. Not unexpected news \u2013 it is exactly what many of us predicted last year, after seeing it at PDC \u2013 but it is good to have it confirmed and … Continue reading Windows 7: July RTM, October 22 launch<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,79,97,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software","category-windows","category-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}