Reports are surfacing indicating that Microsoft plans to release a beta version of Windows 7 at its Professional Developers Conference in late October according to InternetNews.com. Microsoft had publicly announced the release of Windows 7 would take place in early 2010. Apparently that date has been moved, a whole lot! Reports are pointing to a June 2009 release.
It appears that Microsoft is gleefully anticipating an end to the brilliantly annoying Apple ads that helped foster such negative perception surrounding Windows Vista, though Vista accomplished the bulk of that heavy lifting on its own merits. The new Gates and Seinfeld ads must be scoring worse than originally planned. Look for those ads to be sleeping with the fishes in tandem with the rescheduled death of Vista.
Inside sources, hiding even deeper within sources shrouded in black muslin, confirm internal builds of the redesigned platform have already been made available to partners for hardware and software certification. The best news of all is that Windows 7 is really an evolution of Vista rather than an entire new OS. Which confirms what I've suspected all along; "The Future. Delicious".
[InternetNews via Cult of Mac]
I cannot believe Microsoft is going to stake its future on a quickie upgrade of Vista and call it Windows 7.
Things must be blacker than anyone thinks. Or perhaps it was the news that HP may be going its own route and kissing bye to Windows?
Posted by: Jon T | September 16, 2008 at 12:23 AM