Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

Jon Fingas — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:01:10 GMT

If Windows 7 really does hit in June (and I doubt it will), then I don't think there'll be much doubt that it's a Hail Mary play to wipe out negative perceptions of Vista from home users and get businesses onboard.

Speculation aside, Microsoft has so far officially targeted early 2010 as its goal; even if June is just the RTM date, that would still put the release about six months ahead of the public schedule -- and conveniently in time for companies to preload W7 on their holiday 2009 systems.

While I think Vista is better than it's made out to be, it wouldn't take much of a logical leap between a $300m ad campaign and an early W7 release (if true) to guess that Microsoft would be in full-on damage control mode.

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

mikegalos@msn.com — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:46:45 GMT

gorath

According to that bastion of occasional accuracy, Wikipedia, Apple does a separate set of ads for the UK with different actors and sometimes different scripts. See en.wikipedia.org/.../I%27m_a_Mac

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

gorath — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:41:30 GMT

Did the Switcher ads ever air on TV in the UK? I've seen them in print in major cities, but I've never seen them on the television.

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re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

lotsamystuff — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:56:29 GMT

"Microsoft will release Windows 7 when our customers tell us it's ready."

Sure...like y'all did with *cough* Vista *cough*.

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

robertsjoe — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:49:11 GMT

@xtreem0: I'm fine, thanks man. Just foolin'. Some of the stuff is just fun and games. Some of it is FUD and I like to FUD back.

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

Xtreem0 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:33:45 GMT

@Robertsjoe

Are you ok man? I don’t think you are. You comment with a lot of anger against the company. I have never really felt the need to comment but you have outdone yourself. Every company lies, Money is usually the interest for a company, and if you hate windows so much why do you bother viewing Windows sites? Doesn’t that just increase your anger? I only visit this site because it usually tells me of updates that I don’t always see other tech sites talk about for windows like updates etc.(and that’s because my primary computer is a PC (i do have a Mac laptop as well so I visit Mac sites for that info.)) if you don’t want to hear windows in a lighter tone visit Mac specific blogs or tech sites instead. It should get you the info you want in the proper bias of your angle.

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

robertsjoe — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:02:08 GMT

Ahh Microsoft, of course the saints never do anything wrong in their ads.. misleading, misleading, yep!

software.silicon.com/.../0,39024655,10003421,00.htm

news.bbc.co.uk/.../3600724.stm

Yet Apple never does anything of the sort in their ads. Shame, Microsoft, shame.

Remember the funny "I'm a PC" lame-duck ads? Made on Macs. Clearly shows how useless Windows truly is.

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

robertsjoe — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:52:11 GMT

As opposed to what? Be left waiting 6 years for an upgrade to an OS. And all you got from XP to Vista was an awful UI that looked like make-up on a 100 year old hooker? Yet the tasteless Microsofties wouldn't know a 100 years old hooker from a good UI.

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

mikegalos@msn.com — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:41:53 GMT

whiplash

Adding to it is Apple's schizophrenic OS release cycle. On one hand each OS X release is supposed to be a whole new major OS release that's worth paying $130 for (about the price of a Windows consumer major version upgrade), on the other hand each one is just a point release so "it's still OS X 10 so don't worry about things changing".

If you look at them as OS Version releases (and count 10.0 really as a beta), then Apple's been on a release cycle that's about every 1.5 years:

10.1->10.2 - 1 year

10.2->10.3 - 1 year

10.3->10.4 - 1.5 years

10.4->10.5 - 2.5 year

If you count them as point releases then Apple's going at least 8 years without a major release - even longer than Windows XP lasted with the Longhorn Reset disaster.

It's no wonder people get confused about how long an OS version cycle has traditionally been.

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

whiplash55 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:24:37 GMT

@Mike

Yes I think you made a good point. a 2.5 year cycle for new OS releases is back to normal. The Longhorn reset and ridiculously long Vista release made a lot of us forget the historical norm.

That said if 7 is released in June of 09 I'll eat my Thinkpad.

Bon Appetit

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

mikegalos@msn.com — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:11:08 GMT

yert

To be fair,

OS X 10.0 -> 10.1

was really

OS X 10.0 beta 1 -> OS X 10.0

Apple had very good reason for eating the cost of that upgrade for the few users who actually bought 10.0

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

yert — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:06:07 GMT

Mike, you forgot XP SP2, which was so big many consider it a new OS; MS almost released it as one... but they aren't Apple (OS X 10.0 --> 10.1 iirc).

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

Master3 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:44:17 GMT

"So soon after Vista? And not called Vista? Wonder why. Good idea to get rid of a tarnished brand. Really, it's Vista with the service packs. Nothing much there. "

Is robertsjoe just trying to be a grade-A idiot on purpose?

With all due respect, it almost seems like being an Apple fanatic is some sort of mental disorder, where you say stupid stuff as a matter of normal behavior.

re: Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

mikegalos@msn.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:32:50 GMT

robertsjoe

You mean like Leopard?

So soon after Tiger? And not called Tiger? Wonder why. Good idea to get rid of a tarnished brand. Really, it's Tiger with the service packs. Nothing much there. Of course it's the same codebase, as if they could re-work that hairball in two and a half years.