On 07/28/09 21:12, Just Plain Burr wrote:
Announcing: Release to Manufacturing

It's almost here! We're very happy to tell you that we've hit the last big
milestone on the way to Windows 7: Release to Manufacturing. We're packaging
copies and manufacturers are putting it on new PCs. On October 22, you'll be
able to get the final shipping product. Pat yourself on the back for a job
well done; you helped make this an operating system we're all going to
enjoy.




I just wiped my very old IBM Stinkpad and installed
DamnedSmallLinux.

Surprisingly more agile than Windoze on the same hardware.

With the black eye MS took from Vista, if Windows 7 isn't a
dramatically better O/S than XP, they're going to have potentially
irreversible PR problem going forward.

And considering the tortuous process MS has released for
migrating from XP to 7, it looks like this will be another great
year for Apple.


Walt Mossberg has a great column about it.