{"id":1232,"date":"2009-06-03T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2017-07-22T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T02:30:25","slug":"windows-7-will-be-in-stores-on-october-22-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/windows-7-will-be-in-stores-on-october-22-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Will be in Stores on October 22, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/blogs\/windows7\/archive\/2009\/06\/02\/the-date-for-general-availability-ga-of-windows-7-is.aspx\">announced<\/a> yesterday that Windows 7 will be released to public on October 22, 2009. Windows Server 2008 R2 is expected to be broadly available at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1237\" title=\"windows7_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/windows7_logo.jpg\" alt=\"windows7_logo\" width=\"101\" height=\"84\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting is that Microsoft announces this to the world but if you go to Microsoft&#8217;s Web site there is no mention of this on it&#8217;s homepage. Looks like nobody told the folks who manage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windows-7\/default.aspx\">Windows 7 Web site<\/a> either. Guys! this is big, exciting news. Cheer up!! If Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Team can blog about it and you can issue a press release, why not post this news somewhere on the site in an obvious location, like the home page? Okay, I am sure Microsoft has a reason for not posting this news on their home page or even on Windows 7 Web site but I am positive that the rest of the world, well most of it anyway, is thrilled to hear this good news.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to finally upgrade my production servers to Windows Server 2008 R2. It seems like in Windows 7 Microsoft finally has a client operating system that even the critics are liking. When was the last time that happened? I have been running the beta version of Windows 7 on my computers for some time and I like what I&#8217;ve seen so far.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what today&#8217;s press release says &#8220;Today during a keynote address at Computex 2009 in Taipei, Microsoft\u2019s OEM Division Corporate Vice President Steve Guggenheimer revealed that the company is confident with the progress made with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and that as a result, Microsoft will deliver Release to Manufacturing (RTM) code to partners in the second half of July. Windows 7 will become generally available on Oct. 22, 2009, and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be broadly available at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what I gather from this carefully crafted press release is that, unlike Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 will NOT be available to public on 10\/22\/09. It will be <strong>broadly <\/strong>available, rather than <strong>generally <\/strong>available&#8230;&#8230;whatever that means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows 7 will be released to public on October 22, 2009. Windows Server 2008 R2 is expected to be broadly available at the same time. What I find interesting is that Microsoft announces this to the world but if you go to Microsoft&#8217;s Web site there is no mention of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}