Saturday, July 4th 2009
Windows 7 Confirmed to Hit RTM on July 13
It would appear as though rumours which surfaced around a month ago are going to be proved correct, as sources close to multiple technology sites have confirmed that Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing on 13th July. Although general availability is still not until 22nd October, this is a significant milestone as the RTM build will be the final code which also gets shipped to the general public later this year. As well as OEMs, the build should also be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers and will also no doubtedly find its way on to torrent sites shortly after. The wait for Microsoft's highly anticipated operating system is less than four months away, but for many of us little more than a week of waiting stands in our way.
Source:
Neowin.net
136 Comments on Windows 7 Confirmed to Hit RTM on July 13
It makes me laugh now because what I have said in the past when Vista was launched is happening and everyone who ignored me or chose not to believe it are doing exactly what I said.
Around the time Vista was launched, I told them that Vista at its current state is just like XP was at its launch. Everyone was praising XP as the superior OS. Now whether that may be true or not, I dont really care. The fact of the matter is that now with Windows 7 on its way out, people are praising Vista over Windows 7 stating the same thing about Vista now as they did about XP then.
There are just too many fanboy's these days. :shadedshu
W7 I agree is one of the best M$ has come out with in a long time. Though I have used it since the first beta and I can tell you it still has it's quirks.
I'll still install it on release date but only because it is free for me!
According to build and name, unless MS decides to change something, its ready now and available.
I will be waiting a few months, 2-4 or so, before I get W7. Why? Because I'm lazy and don't have money.
So far I've got everything set up and running happily on Vista, and I'd need to do a massive cleanup and organization to be able to fully transfer to W7 while keeping my crap. :o
That and I'm ultra-tight atm, no money to spend. :(
However, I will be upgrading! I'll just wait a while for bug fixes and optimized drivers.
prettier:cool:
more stable:wtf::)
You can see it's the defragger, by just leaving the Task Manager open and seeing which apps are hammering the HD when it starts.
I was talking about the case where you haven't touched the computer for a few minutes. Vista sees this idle time as an opportunity to defrag - and no way is it gonna be stopped! :banghead:
Bob
Regardless, Windows XP is coming to the end of it's long road. Windows 7 is not faster than Windows XP at it's current state...But it will soon be once programmers start adopting more thread's within their software.
And does anyone remember the 98/2000 to Windows XP days of Pre SP1? The ISSUE'S with legacy device's and poor drivers? I believe this has been the SMOOTHEST launch of a Windows OS ever.
Vista is fine for me, one crash since my first install with SP1 integrated version. Plenty of free mem left of my 4GB and only thing that is slow is Vista startup, it takes ages.. Luckily I restart maybe 1-2 times a month, so not an issue for me :)
Still looking forward of 7 RTM vs Vista SP2 gaming tests. In the past your highy praised OS hasn't been faster than Vista, maybe it is now in retail code. Anyhow, even if 7 crushes Vista with double the framerates I won't be upgrading until Windows 7 SP1 is out.
If I had issues or the energy to re-install every program and game and Vista was a rebellious teenager, but it's still a nice kid. I'll let it mature a bit longer :pXP was horrid before SP1 and 98 was horrid always :D Me seemed ok after 98 and 98se, but after XP SP1 no-one even remembers it. Windows 7 must be the smoothest pre SP1 OS since 3.11? Anyhow, I haven't used it yet, so can't say. I just read what the rest of you are saying. Couldn't wait to upgrade 98->Me and then to supposed Windows NT stability in XP. XP->Vista I did just because XP was sooo old already and no future in it (DX9).
btw. does W7 have all the background stuff scheduled mentioned in my first reply link or is it removed/cut down/still there, but using less resources?.
I wanted to buy Vista at first but after hearing all the bad things about it (I know its not that bad with SP1 and improved drivers) but I never ended up using it and just stuck with XP this whole time.
Now I'm running Windows 7 RC and loving it so far. I think MS deserves my purchase of this OS for doing it right and turning things around for the "PC"
There is much more to it then that but that's just a snippet of it. Vista in the long run was never revolutionary. It offered security that people didn't ask for. Developers didn't widely support it (DX 10) and for some didn't offer anything other then e-peen regarding having a high end enough PC to use Vista.
Vista never gained enough ground to over take XP and, many reverted back to XP because of the many problems people were having with Vista. Somehow, some are still relating Vista's issues to the release of XP when it's been over 2 year since it's release.
In a nutshell, Vista has flopped and the perception is that Vista was nothing more then ME 2. Now some are complaining that Win7 is nothing more then Vista when you were told 2 years ago that another OS was coming. But some refused to believe it. I remember the posts that some claimed it would be at least 3+ years. Now we are near RTM release well within 2 years which clearly shows some buyer remorse.
Now here we are at the end of Vista's shelf life and I read bitter posts of how well some thought Vista was. If Win7 avoids the pitfalls of Vista it will be a popular OS. Although I can't say if it will be as popular as XP. We will have to wait and see.