Posted on 09/26/2009 2:36:22 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Microsoft has given small system builders the green light to start selling new Windows 7 PCs more than a week before the general launch date of October 22, a Seattle-area computer maker said today.
According to Jon Bach, the president of Puget Systems, several Microsoft representatives have told him that his company, which sells custom PCs nationally out of its Auburn, Wash. facility, can install Windows 7 on new machines, then sell and ship them to customers on October 13.
That date is nine days before the worldwide October 22 launch Microsoft has touted, when Windows 7 upgrades are to go on sale at retail -- and when large computer manufacturers, such as HP and Dell, will start selling systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
My wife’s HP laptop is crap, but that doesn’t mean they all are....
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