Microsoft is on track to complete Windows 7 and ship it to computer makers in August, a company executive said today. The company promised earlier this week that Windows 7 computers would be available by the holidays, but was less than specific about what it meant. Previous estimates had said consumers would be able to get their hands on Windows 7 PCs by October and that is shaping up to be looking likely.
“If the feedback and telemetry on Windows 7 match our expectations, then we will enter the final phases of the RTM process in about 3 months,” said Steven Sinofsky, the senior vice president of the Windows engineering group, in a post to a company blog Monday morning. Given this, Microsoft has more or less officially denounced Vista, although it will continue to support Vista until at least January 2011, Microsoft has said. Of course, Windows 7 is based on Vista. The funniest bit at TechEd was when Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte made a slip-of-the-tongue during his keynote and called Windows 7, “Vista” for a moment before correcting himself, to the chuckles of attendees.Visit the Microsoft Subnet web site for more news, blogs, podcasts. Subscribe to all Microsoft Subnet bloggers. Sign up for the bi-weekly Microsoft newsletter. (Click on News/Microsoft News Alert.)
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