Stan Beer
Friday, 01 May 2009 04:57
Business IT -
Technology
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In one of the most anticipated releases from Microsoft since - well -
Vista, Microsoft has announced the availability for public download of
its come back operating system Windows 7. With Windows 7, Microsoft
hopes to correct its mistaken market judgment call made when it released
Vista.
At no time in its history has Microsoft faced
bigger challenges, with the economic recession compounding the
difficulties faced by Redmond, brought on to a large extent by the
failure of Vista to match the trend to mobilisation brought on by the
emergence of smaller Internet connected computers.
For the past 18 months, Microsoft has been forced to hastily resurrect
Windows XP and practically give it away in order to gain a respectable
market share in the netbook space. The results have been seen on the
scoreboard with a marked drop in profits, in turn forcing Microsoft to
lay off thousands of workers for the first time in 23 years.
With Windows 7, now available for download to MSDN and TechNet
subscribers at http://technet.microsoft.com and available from May 5 for
the public, Microsoft hopes to regain lost ground it gave up to Apple
and in the netbook space to Linux.
According to Microsoft, the Windows 7 RC milestone is a result of
feedback from millions of customers and partners around the world. The
Beta builds have already been shown to perform impressively on
notebooks and the feedback from testers is largely positive.
Microsoft says the RC release indicates the operating system is
entering the final phases of development and is ready for partners to
develop new applications, device drivers and services, and ready for IT
pros to evaluate Windows 7 and examine how it will operate in their
environment.
“Listening to our partners and customers has been
fundamental to the development of Windows 7,” said Bill Veghte, senior
vice president for the Windows business at Microsoft.
“We heard them and worked hard to deliver the highest quality Release
Candidate in the history of Windows. We have more partner support than
we’ve ever had for an RC and are pleased to say that the Windows 7 RC
has hit the quality and compatibility bar for enterprises to start
putting it through its paces and testing in earnest.”
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