Time for Microsoft to fess up on Windows 7 date

From CNET News.com: With the release candidate for Windows 7 now publicly available, it's entirely reasonable for businesses and consumers to want to know when the final release will be available.
Reasonable maybe, but Microsoft still won't even confirm whether the release of Windows 7 is targeted for this year or early next year.

"We have work to do before we can definitively say it's a holiday product," corporate VP Mike Nash said in an interview last week.
The official word on timing--which came in an interview with CNET News nearly a year ago--is that Microsoft plans to release Windows 7 within three years of the January 2007 mainstream launch of Windows Vista. And the company has refused to budge from that formal stance.

Of course, every indication is that Microsoft plans for Windows 7 to be widely available on PCs this holiday season. As far back as last year, Microsoft tipped its hand that it was headed that way.

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