Today, being October 22 2009, is the day Windows 7 is officially available as a wide release in the U.S. This means it should be available on the shelves at your nearest electronics retailer.
As many have been saying right along, Win 7 is a good product. It runs on even the most minimal of hardware (even a netbook,) has huge support for tons of different peripherals (if your printer didn’t work in Vista, it will probably work in 7,) and a whole host of other features.
The bundled disc comes with both 32 and 64-bit editions. And if you’re wondering which of the versions to buy, the only one needed is Home Premium. The rest do not have any significant features most would need from my perspective. This is why the upgrade edition I bought was Home Premium and not Ultimate.
Also bear in mind Windows 7 is available at popular online retailers such as NewEgg (who is including free shipping by the way.)
For you nervous nellie’s out there who say, "I’ll wait until the first service pack before I buy," that’s a waste of your time. All of us, including myself, who used Windows 7 RC had already been using this OS for several months. It works. It has had an overwhelmingly positive response. I personally use it as my primary operating system on both my custom PC tower and netbook.
You’re in good shape with 7. I say that with utmost confidence.
I still think I may hold off on getting Windows 7, here’s why – http://twe.ly/H_b
Today, Microsoft Turkey ceo said that :” Windows 7 version will crack we know, but cracked version windows 7 don’t make happy of users”
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I Only laugh…
Microsoft finally learn ; all of windows versions craked, cracking and will crack.They finally agree.
Thanks Rich for info
I preordered, should be on it’s way. But I will not install immediately.
No doubt this release has been handled better than Vista’s. But you are naive if you don’t think there will be problems just because it’s been in trial releases. For Microsoft’s sake, hopefully they will be small quirks rather than huge holes. But I’ll let someone else step on the landmines first, thank you very much.
released today in india … hope will get it soon
I’ve been a user of Windows 7 since the Beta. At the time of the Beta release I was running it in Virtual Box as I was thinking it would be problematic (al-la the Vista disaster). When I ran it for a month or so with no issues at all and then the RC was released I took the plunge and installed Windows 7 as a dual-boot.
Again, I’ve not had any issues other than something that I’ve caused myself (trying to install a 5 year old firewall that barely worked in XP). I did not and am not basing my liking Windows 7 based on reviews or opinions but on personal experience only and could not be happier with how good Windows 7 is…please do yourself a favour and ignore all the reviews (good and bad) and just give it a try, you will be pleasently surprised.
“Today, being October 22 2009, is the day Windows 7 is officially available as a wide release in the U.S.”
- Only the U.S.? No, actually worldwide; but it appears that Americans seem so patriotically egocentric that they feel they have a right to disregard any other countries as if they don’t exist, unless they directly benefit Uncle Sam in regard to the matter at hand.
FYI I recieved my pre-ordered copy of Windows 7 Home Premium on 22nd October, (That’s 10.22.2009 for Americans, or 22.10.2009 for the rest of the world.) despite the UK postal strike. Staples hired a courier to deliver it to me. (Yes; we have Staples in the UK too.)(I forgot to order a new 1TB hard-drive for my box, to install it on; so until that arrives I’m using it as an ornament.)
I have a problem with this site lately, inasmuch as it appears to be geared solely to the U.S. of A and nowhere else. There is an entire planet full of overdeveloped monkeys’ worth of countries outside of the U.S.A. would you believe? – Some of us even have the internet too!
“It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.”
Having got that off my chest; yes, I do prefer Windows 7 in some ways to XP, having used the RC since May. I hope Safari doesn’t keep crashing in the RTM like it does on my box in the RC though. – Although some people may think, on looking at some of my earlier comments, that I’m anti-Apple, I do like their browser, and I’d use it all the time if it had as many add-ons as Firefox does.
While I like 7 a lot, I’m also intending to continue to run XP on my other box right up until 2014; although this may or may not change over time. – For instance, if my mobo in some way fails on that machine, forcing me to do a total rebuild/replace before then, then I’ll install 7 on the rebuilt or new machine.
(Vista, IMO, is a latter-day ME, and I’ve never used it, and never will.)
I run the 64-bit version of Win 7 (RC), and I’ll be installing the 64-bit version of the RTM version in due course. I do enciurage everyone else, where possible, to install the 64-bit version too: You’ll soon find that the 3 point whatever gigabytes of RAM, the maximum visible under a 32-bit operating system, just isn’t enough. (I’m currently running 8GB; which is maybe a bit much right now; although I’ve used up 5GB of that on more than 1 occasion.)
Let’s put the 32-bit operating system in its coffin and bury it; consign it to history and allow it to drift off into the obscurity of the past. Can you honestly imagine anyone currently running a 16-bit operating system? In 12 years time we’ll all be baffled by how we managed with less than 4GB of RAM and a 1TB hard-drive: You wait and see…
Sensitive much??? This is a US-based blog, and these guys aren’t “journalists” (see a blog post a week or so back). They’re not required to make every post globally applicable.
You do make some good points. My next PC will definitely be 64 bit. But I think it will be quite a while before your average user (internet, email, et al) needs more than 4 GB of RAM.
Fair comment; though there is a vast difference between “globally acceptable” and U.S. – centric.
Typo: “Applicable”, not “acceptable”.
I don’t get it.
1. I reread the article and can’t find anywhere that he said that Windows 7 was being released in the U.S. only.
2. If there is indeed “a vast difference between globally applicable and U.S. – centric”, then why the rant in the first place? Unless the use of U.S.- centric was simply meant to imply further negative connotations.
If indeed there were good points to be made in the reply, I never got that far with reading it.
I’ll leave any “still angry over losing the war” jokes out of this.