Windows 7 may be ready for back to school
If you or someone you know will be in the market for a computer soon and don’t want to get stuck with Vista or continue to use XP Microsoft may have a surprise for you. Windows 7 may be ready in time for the back to school shopping season.
It has been known for a while that Windows 7 activation keys keep the beta going until Aug. 1, 2009. That is a very specific date and could point to one of two things.
Information Week thinks that Microsoft will either have a beta 2 ready by then and those with beta 1 will be required to upgrade in order to keep using it. Or more likely Windows 7 will be ready to ship by then.
Windows 7 does have some minor differences when compared with Vista but not that many. There is the new taskbar and changes to UAC and there are some under the hood changes that some users may not even notice. The article goes so far as to state that Windows 7 is simply a feature complete and bug-fixed version of Vista.
It has already been called what Vista should have been so why not. Windows 7 is quite stable already and it would not be surprising if Microsoft has a finalized version internally very shortly.
With the “failure” of Vista users have been clamoring for Windows 7 since it was announced. If Microsoft can meet the back to school season it would not only secure those sales but PC sales for the holiday shopping season as well.
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January 20th, 2009
It would be wise of MS to note all the positive reviews are for the beta of 7 Ultimate.
The reaction to a dialed down version purely for a small profit would be swift and full of venom.
January 27th, 2009
I need to get a new laptop now – this one has XP and my husband needs it for his biz. I am thinking of getting the new one loaded with the XP downgrade, but with all the other bells and whistles such as a dual-core processer and 3 gigs of memory so it will support Windows 7 when it is available sometime this year. What else would I need to make sure I have now on this new one to make an upgrade. Then I could skip the dreaded Vista altogether. By then I should be able to afford to upgrade peripherals and progrms – but can’t do that now if I put out the bucks for a new laptop. I am asking – does this plan to avoid Vista and still get a new laptop now which will run my programs make sense. How hard is it to upgrade to a new OS on your own? Thank you for any guidance – Dell and Toshiba offer new deals every 10 minutes and this is all very confusing.