James Delahunty
29 Apr 2009 22:35
According to Microsoft's Senior Vice President for the Windows Business, Bill Veghte, the new Windows 7 operating system might arrive on store shelves in late 2009. Speaking to Bloomberg, he commented that a "holiday release is accomplishable." However, he would not comment on the possibility of the upcoming Windows upgrade being released before the holiday season.
Many analysts are expecting that Windows 7 will be released earlier than Veghte is expecting, with some predicting a September 2009 release. The first release candidate version of the operating system will be made available on Thursday to Technet and MSDN subscribers, and everybody else on May 5.
Recently it was revealed that Windows 7 will include an add-on to run Windows XP SP3 in a virtual environment, extending a crutch to older applications that might have issues running on the new operating system. It also promised to reduce the occurrence of User Account Control (UAC) prompts; one of Vista's most disliked default features.