{"id":555,"date":"2009-06-03T06:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T06:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/06\/03\/windows-7-to-launch-october-22.aspx"},"modified":"2009-06-03T06:03:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T06:03:55","slug":"windows-7-to-launch-october-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 to launch October 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it is planning for Windows 7 to hit retail shelves and start showing up on new PCs on October 22. <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">To reach that milestone, Microsoft plans to wrap up development of the operating system by the middle or end of next month, Senior Vice President Bill Veghte said in an interview. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft made the near-final release candidate version <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10233399-56.html\"><font size=\"2\">available last month<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">. Shortly after its release, Microsoft finally confirmed that it was <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10236483-56.html\"><font size=\"2\">aiming Windows 7 for a holiday 2009 release<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">, something that was widely anticipated, but not confirmed by those in Redmond.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Full Article &#8211; <\/font><a title=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10253924-56.html\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10253924-56.html\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10253924-56.html<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/2300-10805_3-10000789-1.html\">&#160;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it is planning for Windows 7 to hit retail shelves and start showing up on new PCs on October 22. To reach that milestone, Microsoft plans to wrap up development of the operating system by the middle or end of next month, Senior Vice President Bill Veghte said in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}