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Windows 7 announcement coming (Updated)

Jul. 13, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

While I'm not expecting a formal Windows 7 RTM announcement until tomorrow (they wouldn't rain on the Office 2010 parade today, would they?) Microsoft will indeed be announcing something today about Windows 7. Here's some info I just received from Microsoft's PR department:

Bill Veghte, senior vice president for the Windows Business at Microsoft, revealed new partner offerings and opportunities around Windows 7, which is slated to be released to manufacturing later this month and launch in October. Details are available on the Windows Team blog.

It's written in past tense, but what it's announcing hasn't happened yet. So the link to the Windows Team Blog doesn't (yet) reveal anything new. I'm guessing it will around the time Mr. Veghte takes the stage today at WPC. That could be anytime now.

Anyway. If I'm reading this right, no RTM announcement today.

UPDATE: I assume the announcement is about the September 1, 2009 availability of Windows 7 for Microsoft's volume licensing customers. Certainly, there was no other interesting revelation of any kind during the talk.

Discuss this Article 68

Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
Paul, great job blowing up my RSS reader with all these updates. :)
chipwinter
on Jul 13, 2009
Maybe they have some research to share about the how many companies plan to upgrade to Windows 7. I think that's important to get the groundswell started, yet I haven't seen any numbers about it.
de Silentio
on Jul 13, 2009
CNET reports that Windows 7 will be available to businesses via VL on Spet 1. Perhaps that is the big "7" news of the day.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
Maybe this is the announcement: "Six in 10 companies in a survey plan to skip the purchase of Microsoft Corp's Windows 7 computer operating system... ...Many of the more than 1,000 companies that responded to a survey by ScriptLogic Corp say they...lack the resources to deploy Microsoft's latest offering." http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56C0NC20090713
stimshady
on Jul 13, 2009
didnt think they'd want to announce it on the 13th, they're a bit funny with things like that...
de Silentio
on Jul 13, 2009
I have an announcement: Ocean's a troll.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
Nope.
realtestman
on Jul 13, 2009
Yep.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
Nope. You guys are trolling by talking about -me-. The topic here is **Windows 7**
de Silentio
on Jul 13, 2009
The topic is the coming WIndows 7 announcement. Your article is obviously not the announcement, so it is a troll post.
rjohn05
on Jul 13, 2009
Windows 7 will do well. Companies will see their employees demanding the connectivity/ability to work from home and they will have to upgrade whether they want to or not. Just a guess. Ha.
de Silentio
on Jul 13, 2009
Oh, and we are not trolling as our intention is not to arose off-topic discussion by making inflammatory comments.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
>>The topic is the coming WIndows 7 announcement. << Nope, it's windows 7. Very few of these threads stay on the narrowly defined topics that you radically extremist posters would desire they stay on.
stimshady
on Jul 13, 2009
i have a goldfish
de Silentio
on Jul 13, 2009
"Very few of these threads stay on the narrowly defined topics that you radically extremist posters would desire they stay on. " You're correct, but that doen't mean that they shouldn't stay on the "narrowly defined topic" of the original post. It's not the fact that you posted about Windows 7, it's the fact that you try to instigate by posting articles and saying stuff like "Maybe this is the announcement". Either way, if I am trolling, by your logic you are also trolling by commenting on my comments about you trolling. Troll.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
Now that's trolling. :)
de Silentio
on Jul 13, 2009
Ocean: "Now that's trolling. :)" I would argue that it is not as it's intent is not to instigate. Yes, I looked up trolling on Wikipedia, and I agree with the definition they give.
realtestman
on Jul 13, 2009
Ocean, you're a troll, with your posts blatanly disguised to invite people to get outraged over, whether it's on topic or not. Troll.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
"it's the fact that you try to instigate" Says you. I have no purpose other to inform and educate. You sir, have broken this threads discussions by making them about a poster.
realtestman
on Jul 13, 2009
Says you too. Except it's clearly off-topic and obviously trolling. Well done by the way, your trolling is successful. As usual.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
>>your posts blatanly disguised to invite people to get outraged<< What did I post that was outrageous?
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
>>it's clearly off-topic<< Not clearly. it's about Windows 7.
LandonAB
on Jul 13, 2009
Anyone else noticed that www.digitalwpc.com is down? I was watching the keynote earlier but now can not connect to the site.
LandonAB
on Jul 13, 2009
Nevermind, the site must be getting hammered.
de Silentio
on Jul 13, 2009
Ocean: "Says you. I have no purpose other to inform and educate." Really, so you thought Microsoft was going to announce that six out of ten businesses were not going to upgrade. Interesting. Ocean: "You sir, have broken this threads discussions by making them about a poster." See, I thought Microsoft might announce that you are a troll, because that is just as likely as them announcing that business are not going to adopt Windows 7. realtestman: "Well done by the way, your trolling is successful" Yes, it was. I lachted on like a hungry terd-fish.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
de, you're still trolling. Make it about the topic of Pauls post, not other posters. Thanks!
de Silentio
on Jul 13, 2009
Ocean, you're still trolling also. I paid the piper on this one. And, that last post was about Windows 7, thank you.
RunTimeError
on Jul 13, 2009
... arguing on the Internet is like running in the Special Olympics...
Master3
on Jul 13, 2009
That silly survey that Ocean pushed is based on a survey of less than 5000 companies that responded to a 20,000 survey request by this polling group. So out of 20,000 companies only a fraction responded to their survey. Most of the articles about it consistently leave out this tidbit, because it got the result they wanted, and like clockwork, many tech blogs, and trolls are running with it. To the credit of sites like Neowin, they removed the story because it was pointed out to be junk.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
Neowin? The guys who publish Apple rumors that never ever come true? Those guys? http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/07/13/apple-tablet-rumor-re-surfaces-...
mikegalos@msn.com
on Jul 13, 2009
Yes, Ocean, Even Neowin has more credibility than you do.
CableJay
on Jul 13, 2009
Confirmed that WIn 7 RTM final build has not been leeked. Build 7600 as of the current build floating around the internet is not the final RTM build. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2350114,00.asp
Master3
on Jul 13, 2009
"Neowin? The guys who publish Apple rumors that never ever come true? Those guys?" You mean also like Engadget Ars Technia Gizmodo BGR Slashdot MacRumors Mac Addict Tech Crunch And thousands of gadget sites and blogs. Those sites make a game out of it that you and your fellow Apple fanatics gladly participate in...WITH YOUR OWN RUMORS THAT NEVER COME TRUE! As if not nailing an educated guess is a destroyer of credibility. So what exactly is your point again?
panache1023
on Jul 13, 2009
I don't know who's worse, Ocean or RobertsJoe.
Backup77
on Jul 13, 2009
It might be nice if we could keep comments relevant to Paul's post. Mary Jo-Foley at ZDNET has some more info regarding the availability date for business customers getting windows 7. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3332
Backup77
on Jul 13, 2009
Ed Bott has a post regarding Windows 7 RTM date and build numbers. These build numbers fascinate me. http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=2574
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
>>your fellow Apple fanatics << Never owned an Apple PC. Just an iPod. I'm a proud XP and Windows 7RC user. Ubuntu is nice too.
shark47
on Jul 13, 2009
"Nope, it's windows 7. " Nope, it's any desktop OS. Oh, no. It's any OS. Google Chrome rocks.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
>>So what exactly is your point again?<< That you, De, and Mike should stop trolling.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
I just noticed that Ed Bott took the survey seriously. Shame on De, Master, and Mike...AGAIN. "“Wholesale migration” by more than 40% of businesses in just over a year. My first reaction when I read that was “Holy crap, that’s a big number!” http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1181
mikegalos@msn.com
on Jul 13, 2009
Ocean No. Ed Bott proved that he knows how to read. Apparently unlike you, Reuters, PC World, Electronista, Computerworld,Daily Finance, All Things Digital, Information Week Weblog, CNET News and most of the tech "journalists" out there. 40% adoption rate in 14 months would be pretty amazing.
rr0de74@live.com
on Jul 13, 2009
@chipwinter I would not hold my breath on that ground swell.... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10285117-56.html?tag=mncol So Mike what announcement made Terminal Services less appealing???
shark47
on Jul 13, 2009
"Never owned an Apple PC." Considering that they never made one, I'm not really surprised.
sjaak327
on Jul 13, 2009
" I'm a proud XP and Windows 7RC user. Ubuntu is nice too." Amazing that there are proud XP users :) Anyone who knows a bit about security should be ashamed to still be running that insecure piece of junk. "40% adoption rate in 14 months would be pretty amazing. " Yeah it would be downright fantastic, I would be thrilled if my company would go to Win7 or Vista, slimm chance though, I hate going to work and still running XP.
robertsjoe
on Jul 13, 2009
Business is not interested in Windows 7. It's as simple as that.
Ocean
on Jul 13, 2009
Ed Bott can read, but Mike can't? Master can't? Why didn't any of you point out the same thing he did? All you did was trash it as a silly survey, unworthy of publishing.
chuckb84
on Jul 13, 2009
What is the business case for Windows 7? I asked this question about VIsta, and there was basically no answer. Since WIndows 7 is Vista plumbing with a few new UI features, I repeat the question, and we can phrase it precisely: What does WIndows 7 do for business that XP doesn't?
shark47
on Jul 13, 2009
"What does WIndows 7 do for business that XP doesn't?" Maybe you should look at the enhancements list and decide for yourself. I know what Windows 7 does for me and have preordered it.
shark47
on Jul 13, 2009
http://www.scriptlogic.com/landing/google/da/windows-7-migration.asp?utm... It's funny that Script Logic itself arrived at a different conclusions from the same survey: "...we found that, despite its impact on short-term plans, 41% of organizations plan a wholesale migration to Windows 7 by the end of 2010. This is actually a strong adoption rate when compared to the historical adoption rate of Windows XP in its first year which was cited as 12-14%." Here's Ina Fried's conclusion: "Although plenty of businesses skipped Windows Vista, a significant number of corporations have no plans to quickly move to Windows 7, according to a new survey. " I guess the glass is always half empty when it comes to Microsoft.
Backup77
on Jul 13, 2009
@robertsjoe on what basis did you form the opinion that business is not interested in Windows 7.

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