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Despite prolonged insistence that Windows 7 wouldn’t be ready for its official launch until 2010, those sly old boffins at Microsoft have now performed a perfect back-peddle and announced the complete operating system (OS) will be unleashed before the close of the year.
Now heading for a holiday 2009 launch. Image: impresa.mccabe/Flickr.
Coming only a matter of days after Microsoft moved to gather yet more valuable test feedback through the download availability of its first Release Candidate (RC) version of Windows 7, the Redmond-based software behemoth has said it expects the new OS to be finished for December.
“With early testing and partner feedback we’ve received over the past few weeks, Windows 7 is tracking well for holiday availability,” said Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Windows 7 business, in an official statement.
While the jump forward from a tentative release timeframe of 2010 may instil a sense that Microsoft is perhaps rushing its platform out the door, any persistent wrinkles will likely be ironed out by another Release Candidate edition well before December, and the team behind Windows 7 insists quality of product remains its core focal point.
“Many are pushing us to release the product sooner rather than later, but our focus remains on a high quality release,” outlined Steven Sinofsky on the Engineering Windows 7 blog.
“We do not have a ‘deadline’ we are aiming to meet, and the quality (in all dimensions) of the product and a smooth finish are the most important criteria for Windows 7,” he added.
Ultimately absorbed as ‘a December launch, delays notwithstanding,’ Sinofsky’s comments have been echoed by Veghte, who said Microsoft will not ship Windows 7 “until it meets the quality bar we demand for our customers.”
The current Release Candidate of Windows 7, which was made available on May 05, can be downloaded by clicking here.
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