It’s pretty clear that Microsoft would rather see its next operating system, Windows 7, sooner rather than later. But conflicting reports and opinions have it launching anywhere from mid-2009, to ...

It sounds like Microsoft is aiming to get Windows 7 out earlier than it promised -- at least if you believe the company's CEO. During his fireside chat with Chairman Bill Gates at the D6 conference on ...

Don Reisinger explains why Microsoft ought to release the new Windows version in 2009, rather than 2010, particularly given its Vista woes. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who ...

Initial sales of Windows 7 boxed software surpassed those of Vista's by 234 percent in the first few days of the operating system's availability on the US market, according to data collected by NPD's ...

Welcome to Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) testing. We’re on our way to Windows 7, and the RC is a great opportunity for IT professionals like you to take Windows 7 and begin testing it in your real ...

Contrary to all that is being said on the net, it clearly looks like Microsoft is NOT planning to release Windows 7 in 2009. Microsoft’s official response, by an Email dated 26th January, 2008, to ...

Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte has confirmed that Redmond is "tracking well to a Windows 7 holiday", which according to our senior vice president-to-English dictionary, means "Windows 7 ...

Although no one waits in long lines for a new edition of Windows software anymore, the debut of Microsoft’s latest operating system is part of why buying a PC is starting to feel fun for the first ...

Microsoft officially says it will ship the Windows 7 operating system within three years of the January 2007 consumer release of Windows Vista. But speculation abounds that the software giant is ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

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