This morning the Windows 7 team released the code to manufacturing (aka Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, etc) so they can start building it into their PCs ready for shipping on the 22nd October.
I’ve been using Windows 7 for the past 6 months or so and it is an amazing piece of software that represents the hard work of over 5000 engineers – great work guys!
When I joined Microsoft 3 years ago, we launched Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 and I thought that was big – we had unprecedented sales of all those products, double digit growth etc (just check the financials). With Windows 7, Office 2010, Windows Azure, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, Silverlight 3, Windows Server 2008 R2 and more being released very soon this is going to be a huge 12 months for Microsoft – huge.
Latika – who seems to be getting to shoot more videos that me these days – takes you through a quick tour of some of the cool features in the new release of Windows 7 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/tour