No Windows 7 In 2009?

Martin | Mar 10, 2009 | Comments

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The guessing game is on again. Microsoft is tight lipped about the Windows 7 release schedule which is the main reason why so many different Windows 7 release dates are floating around on the Internet. Depending on the website that you visit you find release dates for Windows 7 that range from the second quarter of 2009 to the fourth quarter of 2010. That’s more than 18 months of difference.

There are indications that the most extreme release date suggestions will not become true. We know that the Windows 7 Release Candidate will most likely be released in April 2009 which makes it highly unlikely that Windows 7 will be released in the second or third quarter of 2009. The most likely release dates for Windows 7 are therefor located in the fourth quarter of 2009 or the first quarter of 2010.

According to Rachel Linnemann who is responsible for Windows business clients in Germany Windows 7 will not be released in 2009 but in the first quarter of 2010. While she explicitly mentions the Germany version of Windows 7 it is likely that this is also true for the other first tier languages.

According to Microsoft’s language release schedule for Windows 7 the German and English version of Windows 7 will be released at the same time together with several other languages.

Beta version users who might have fears that their beta versions run out will have the opportunity to upgrade to the Windows 7 Release Candidate which – most likely – will not expire before the official release of the final version of Windows 7. It is however not sure at this point if the release candidate of Windows 7 will be made available publicly or only to the beta testers.

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About the Author: Martin Brinkmann is an Online Journalist from Germany who discovered his love for technology in high school. He is currently working as a freelancer for several publications and runs his own Internet website Ghacks

  • karol
    too bad. but vista is pretty much ok  for now. i use ultimate x64 and it's very fast,stable and absolutely no issues!
  • thanks god,  it's always a pain to install new system :)
  • rene
    what are you talking about . only beta testers??/


    thepiratebay has that coverd
  • Eoraptor
    Given hat occured with Vista, I fully expect W7 to be a publically available RC, especially given interest in the W7 beta builds.
    that said, it would majorly suck if the RC is launched in April, expires in august-november, but the publicly available product doesn't hit ill jan or feb 2010
  • what does RC means?  Release Candidate?

    thanks
  • Agreed. Having the RC go only to beta testers would mean that there would be no RC in the hands of the general public this year. I would think for quality sake that this would be a potential mistake.
  • sorry, double post
  • Ouch..but the beta is only active until August 2009..
  • Are you having a laugh Sardina?It's better having RC go live to beta testers as we've seen in the past, get them use it before releasing to the general public. This will help manages any patches or fixes.
  • I fully intend on buying Win7 when it launches, no piracy for me. But I would seriously love to keep using the beta/RC until the official launch. If the beta expires in August and the RC isn't made public, then what? I'll just have to sit around with a non-functional system until then? That would be epic suck.
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