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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aOCBMAfXtj.E
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Microsoft May Ship Windows in September, Compal Says (Update3)
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By Tim Culpan
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. may begin shipping its Windows 7 operating system as early as the third quarter, months before the software makerfs official prediction, a computer-industry executive said.
gAccording to current planning, it should be late September or early October,h said Ray Chen, president of Taipei-based Compal Electronics Inc.Cthe maker of laptop personal computers for Hewlett-Packard Co. and Acer Inc.
Windows 7, Microsoftfs first operating system since the general release of Vista in January 2007, may help spur sales of PCs amid the global recession, Chen said. Worldwide notebook shipments this year will be little changed from 2008 at 120 million to 125 million units, he told an investorsf conference at the companyfs headquarters today.
gWindows 7 has much better performance than Windows Vista,h said Daniel Chang, a computer-industry analyst at Macquarie Securities Ltd. in Taipei. gThe reviews have been excellent and therefs been real improvement in the user interface.h
Microsoft dropped 21 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $16.96 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. The shares have declined 39 percent in the past year.
Microsoft, the worldfs largest software maker, has been officially saying the new system will be released about three years after Windows Vista went on sale, or January 2010. Amelia Agrawal, a spokeswoman in Singapore for Redmond, Washington- based Microsoft, repeated that statement today.
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Some Microsoft executives have suggested the debut may come earlier. In October, Bill Veghte, a senior vice president in the Windows group, said the product would be released in a year, closer to the timeline cited by Compal. In April 2008, co- founder Bill Gates said the next version would be out gin the next year or so.h
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer yesterday declined to predict how well Windows 7 will sell and whether the program will help pull PC sales out of the slump. Consumer and corporate demand is waning, a trend that will continue, he said.
gWe have a pretty good product,h he said of Windows 7 at a meeting with analysts in New York. gWe have some pent-up latent interest, as people have been testing but not deploying Vista, but wefll have to see.h
Microsoft faces increasing competition for its operating system, which runs more than 90 percent of the worldfs PCs. Windows lost a percentage point or more of market share to Apple Inc.fs Mac program over the past year, Ballmer said. Windows also may vie with Google Inc.fs Android operating system, now used for mobile phones, as it begins appearing on notebook PCs, he said.
Sales of low-cost notebooks, or netbooks, eroded earnings at Microsoft during its fiscal second quarter because they use Windows XP with a lower license fee than its Vista system. Revenue at the division that makes Windows fell 8 percent during the period, the company said last month.
To contact the reporter on this story: Tim Culpan in Taipei at tculpan1@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: February 25, 2009 16:29 EST
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Posted - Feb 26 2009 : 08:21:00
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our company will probly bypass vista altogether.
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Posted - Feb 26 2009 : 13:03:30
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Any why not with a new OS being released so soon?
I know I would.
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Posted - Feb 26 2009 : 13:34:25
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Well, I guess I am just a dumb arse., but I have VISTA and honestly, I can't tell any difference in VISTA and/or XP. I do like the little windows that come up when you wave your pointer over the tabs at the bottom of the screen (showing you what's open). Other than that, I see no big difference.
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Posted - Mar 03 2009 : 22:58:52
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Installed the 7 beta on my ol socket 939 AMD machine with 2 gigs of DDR 400 and a 4800+ X2 cpu @2.67ghz, 8600GTS on a Biostar TForce mobo. Got a 5.4 rating. I was impressed with how easy it was to install and every driver was there. The first update finished the install.
Thats 3 systems so far and no issues.
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Windows 7 shipping in Sept 09?
