Windows 7 will ship in April 2009 says Paul

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When will Windows 7 ship? My prediction: April 2009

I’ll be publishing this in Short Takes later this morning, but I thought it would be of interest here in the blog as well:

There'sbeen a lot of speculation about when Microsoft would ship Windows 7,its eagerly awaited follow-up to Windows Vista. So far, I've suggestedthat the company would ship Windows 7 far earlier than most peoplethought. But now I'm ready to make a number of more specificpredictions myself, and add to the speculation.

It's prettywidely known that Microsoft will ship a beta release (and a public oneat that) of Windows 7 in January. This beta will be the only beta andit will be followed by a single release candidate build, and then thefinal version, all in quick succession. I expect Windows 7 to befinalized by April 2009 at the latest, and to be completedsimultaneously with Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2(SP2), which is also due in April. (Windows 7 and SP2 share more codethan people realize as well, by the way.) Windows 7 will be madebroadly available to consumers and business customers no later thanJune 2009.

And those, folks, are my predictions for the release of Windows 7.

Oneother factoid: My understanding is that Vista SP2 and Windows 7 will bethe baseline for both application and device compatibility goingforward, and that’s a big part of the code sharing between these tworeleases. The idea is that if it works in Vista (with SP2) it willabsolutely work in Windows 7 as well.

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xblues

这么说就快了！三月份登录，4月份买一个电脑就装Windows 7！！！

Tux

如果真是April, 2009 ship，那肯定就是shit了。

xblues

应该是时机成熟了，window7的内核实际上没有变化，Vista可以说是加了好多新特性的Beta版本，经过这么长时间的尝试，终于可以看到正式版啦，去掉不合适的，再把应该加强的加强。我看好Windows7，相当于改进版的Vista+sp2