Acer claims Windows 7 will be released October 23

Taiwanese electronics company representative revealed this timeline to explain the case of their desktop PC model Z5600, operating on the latest Windows operating system, to be released at the end of September.

Bobby Watkins, the Acer director in the UK, said the person who bought the computer installed Vista within a month before Microsoft's seventh operating system appeared would receive a free upgrade package.

"October 23 is the day Windows 7 comes out. The upgrade program takes place 30 days, so if customers need to buy a new machine during this period, they will still receive version 7 without paying any extra cost." Watkins explains why the Z5600 is before Windows 7.

Currently, Microsoft still claims the next generation OS version will be released in January 2010. However, the members of MSDN and TechNet were able to download the Release Candidate (RC) version from April 30, which made analysts confirm that Windows 7 will be available in the biggest shopping season of the year ( November).

RC is an important milestone in the Windows 7 development roadmap. This is a nearly complete version and is ready for thousands of partners to inspect and evaluate as well as build applications, device drivers and services. on the new platform.

Some new features of Windows 7:

- Direct Access : Allows administrators to provide users often have to move access to the company's resource system with high reliability and security without setting up VPN connection.

- BranchCache : Allows to reduce the waiting time of users to download files from remote servers by keeping the previously accessed content in the network cache.

- Remote Media Streaming : Allow Internet access to home digital media library with an external computer with Windows 7 installed.

- Windows XP Mode : Using Windows Virtual PC, Windows XP Mode allows Windows 7 systems to run applications for Windows XP. This feature will be available in Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate.

- Refined Navigation : Some small improvements to toolbars, Jumplists and searches that help navigate and find exactly what users want much easier.

- Internet Explorer 8 : Private browser function to prevent access traces .

- Windows Touch : RC adds some updates on drag, drop and touch capabilities.