Microsoft positive is trickling out the Windows 7 news as slowly as achievable.On July 21,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Key, through a posting on the Windows Group Weblog, Microsoft shared its delivery timetable for that Windows seven bits. Without however disclosing the release-to-manufacturing date — which Microsoft has said will be before the end of this month — company officials provided the following new dates:OEMs: Two days after RTM
ISVs and IHV partners: August 6 (downloadable via Microsoft Connect or MSDN)Microsoft Gold certified resellers: August 16 (downloadable from the partner portal in English only); October 1 (other language)TechNet subscribers: August 6 (English only); October 1 (other languages)
MSDN subscribers: August 6 (English only); October 1 (other languages)Microsoft “Action Pack” subscribers: August 23 (English only); October 1 (remaining languages)
Volume licensees with existing Software Assurance license: August 7 (downloadable from the Volume License Service Center in English); a couple of weeks after that for other languages. (So my original post on when business users would get Windows 7 wasn;t really wrong,
Microsoft Office 2010 Sale, after all. Glad we cleared that up. Not,
Office Standard 2010!)
Volume licensees without a Software Assurance license: September 1 (downloadable from the Volume License Service Center)Consumers: General availability begins October 22. Retailers and OEMs will be offering new systems preloaded with Windows 7 and copies of Windows 7 at retail on that day.The good news: There will be a family pack for Windows Home Premium, Microsoft is confirming,
Microsoft Office Home And Student 2010, and it will allow installation on up to three PCs. Microsoft still isn;t talking pricing on that one,
Microsoft Office 2010 Generator, but my colleague Ed Bott already had the pricing details.
The bad news: No free copies of Windows seven for techical beta testers. The 50 percent discount offer that already closed for Windows seven Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional was your thank you.