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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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ghot
August 04, 2009 at 7:25pm
...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 :)
nekollx
August 05, 2009 at 9:13am
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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ghot
August 03, 2009 at 9:55pm
......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 :)
Caboose
August 04, 2009 at 10:09am
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! =-
bingojubes
August 03, 2009 at 5:05pm
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.
Caboose
August 04, 2009 at 10:10am
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! =-
FrancesTheMute
August 03, 2009 at 2:45pm
my company has an EA agreement with Microsoft. One of the sys admins told me we'll get our RTM copy on August 8th
comptech08
August 03, 2009 at 12:32pm
"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
nekollx
August 03, 2009 at 5:19pm
you hate Anti-Virus and preinstalled drivers as well?
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MeTo
August 04, 2009 at 9:25am
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.
