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Staggered Windows 7 RTM Schedule has OEMs System Builders Behind Schedule

Posted 08/03/09 at 12:43:59 PM  by Paul Lilly

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According to news and rumor site DigiTimes, Taiwan-based OEM PC makers are still waiting on Windows 7 tools from Microsoft as well as final validation tests from independent software and hardware vendors (ISVs and IHVs), putting them behind schedule. Previously, OEMs had hoped to roll out PCs with Windows 7 by the middle of this month, but are now shooting for September.

Although major OEMs were given RTM copies of Windows 7 around July 24th, the staggered release schedule is forcing ISVs and IHVs to wait until August 6th for the same code. That means OEMs hoping to include third-party software, like antivirus software, or drivers for specific hardware devices have to wait as well.

In preparation for Windows 7's October 22nd retail release, OEMs planned to have 10 million units of notebook and desktop PCs ready to go. In order to meet that goal, they would have to produce 2,000 PCs in a single month, which sources say isn't likely to happen.

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TAGS: microsoft, operating system, Software, OS, OEM, windows 7, RTM
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avatarAs usual Caboose.....

Submitted by ghot on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 6:25pm

...you only see what you want to see in what I write.  I LIKE Windows XP, maybe the words "post-XP Microsoft operating system" in my sig are too complex for you....go ahead be a sheep...I don't care.  I just read the 5 page description of Win 7's backup proceedure.... I could back up and restore with Norton Ghost about 5 times, in the time it took me to read that.  I don't hate Microsoft....I just hate what they are DOING.  No one is MAKING them do what they do, in fact, sheep like you are WHY they are doing what they are doing.

Here's another little fact for you:  Guess what the best OS for overclocking is?  You got it....32bit Windows XP  :)

Try real hard to either comment on the topic at hand or refrain from wasting space....anyone can flame like a grade-schooler  :/

 

Take an OS, and edit out all the efficiency, and what you have left is a post-XP Microsoft operating system :)

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avatar well i hope yoursatified

Submitted by nekollx on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 8:13am

 well i hope yoursatified to be using a

Unsupported

10 year old

4GB RAM restricted OS

 

for the rest of your life.

 

Me. I like the fact that i'll be geting windows updates in 2014 and beyond

that my OD supports multi TB hard drives

That features that were once 3rd party are now first party

That i can go to 12 GB or ram and beyond

Oh yeah...

And it virtulizes XP too...

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avatarNot even out and already..........

Submitted by ghot on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 8:55pm

......delays....smells a lot like the Vista rollout.  The really sad part is:  Customers are gonna rush out and buy Windows 7 and it's gonna come installed on everything....THEN the crap will start...yet again  :/

 

Take an OS, and edit out all the efficiency, and what you have left is a post-XP Microsoft operating system :)

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avatar Dude, just go buy a Mac

Submitted by Caboose on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 9:09am

 Dude, just go buy a Mac already since it's clear Microsoft will never EVER do anything that you will see as acceptable. Or I've got a better idea, just go and build your own OS since you seem to be able to do so much better than Microsoft...

 

-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-

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avatarBetter yet

Submitted by MeTo on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 10:07am

Better yet build your own PC and install Linux.

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avatarpreventing activation leaks?

Submitted by bingojubes on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 4:05pm

maybe after the stint with the other company that had released activation keys or something like that. so staggering releases would aid in their process to keep track in case something like that happens again.

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avatar I can see them doing that.

Submitted by Caboose on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 9:10am

 I can see them doing that. IBM ruined it for everyone else!

 

-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-

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avatarmy company has an EA

Submitted by FrancesTheMute on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 1:45pm

my company has an EA agreement with Microsoft.  One of the sys admins told me we'll get our RTM copy on August 8th

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avatar"That means OEMs hoping to

Submitted by comptech08 on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 11:32am

"That means OEMs hoping to include third-party software, like antivirus
software, or drivers for specific hardware devices have to wait as well."

 

I HATE bloat-ware

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avatar you hate Anti-Virus and

Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 4:19pm

 you hate Anti-Virus and preinstalled drivers as well?

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avatarThe first thing i do

Submitted by MeTo on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 8:25am

The first thing i do when i buy a new computer is run a program called Decrapifier. It removes the crippled,limited software that all PC manufacturers install.

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