So what's your take? Get involved and leave a comment.Are you researching the history of Microsoft Windows versions? This article contains a complete list of all Microsoft Windows Versions and the date of release.

If we don't Well, don't blame me if in 2010, your only netbook choices are crippleware Windows 7 netbooks or $500+ netbook/laptops with Windows 7 Home Premium. Many PC makers, like Acer, are releasing Linux netbooks, we need to support them and let their sales partners know that we want their products. That you want to see Intel Atom netbooks with Moblin and other Linuxes. That, you want to see ARM netbooks with Android, and other Linux choices. So, if you want to see Linux netbooks, now is the time to let your vendors and retailers know that you want real choice. Microsoft doesn't dare compete on quality, so it pressures OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and retailers to keep people from even realizing that there are other, never-mind better, choices. Vaughan-Nichols pleads with you not to buy Windows 7 : But the ugly duckling is about to sing, and it will be a Susan Boyle-like performance.īut Steven J. The sentiment is so horrible that there is almost universal expectation that it will not come up with another good product, ever. It's seen as middle-aged, overweight and slow, and it is believed by many that creativity retired with Bill Gates. If Susan Boyle was a stock, Id call her a deep value stock with very low expectations, and thus a great margin of safety, selling at a discount to its fair value. That's the final phase before the software becomes available to consumers, and - as its name suggests - entails Microsoft sending the Windows 7 code to PC manufacturers so they can start preparing new systems for the October 22 release.

JR Raphael asks what happens before then: Another step in the Windows 7 release process will be the transition into the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) phase of development. am going to remain a tad uneasy about the launch until we know more about whether the typical Windows 7 machine thats sold to a consumer is so larded up with demoware, adware, and pointlessware that you cant appreciate Win 7s subdued, less annoying personality. Theres plenty of evidence that a Windows 7 machine will be more pleasing than the same hardware loaded with Windows Vista (or for that matter, Windows XP). Its cheery news for a PC industry thats presumably already worrying about the holiday sales period and looking for incentives it can give consumers to buy, buy, buy.

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