Microsoft Shipping Windows 7 in September?

February 26, 2009 · Filed Under Windows · Comment 

Microsoft may ship Windows 7 on PCs by September, said Compal president Ray Chen at an investor’s conference.  Compal builds personal computers for Acer, HP and other major PC vendors.  The news matches rumors that Microsoft hopes to release Windows 7 well ahead of the holidays.  This would give Microsoft some time to hopefully iron out some of the initial bugs and avoid the major embarrassment it saw with people downgrading back to XP because Vista simply wouldn’t work.

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