Windows 7 Hits the Market
NEW YORK – Although the U.S. official launch event is a few hours, the operating system Windows 7, Microsoft has come on the market, will be available in a number of countries around the world.
Microsoft executives have fanned out to launch the flagship of the company on which the rest of the Redmond Empire was built to celebrate. The software giant is based on positive feedback and new features to Windows to its image in the face of a disappointing response to Windows Vista to help you.
Microsoft is touting the value of Windows in the face of a resurgent Apple. Through the introduction of Microsoft celebrates its seven days of trafficking in a number of key markets, including the United States. Among the specialties is a set of $ 1,200 from Hewlett-Packard and Best Buy, a netbook, laptop, computer, monitor, and includes routers, and the installation in the house.
“The Best Buy offers a Home Makeover,” Microsoft Vice President Tami Reller told CNET News. “For the price of a Mac, you have a new laptop, a new netbook, a new office and a new router to do so through the Geek Squad.
In addition to landing on the new PC, Microsoft will also sell standalone versions of Windows 7, will be used to enable them to upgrade an existing PC. Although Microsoft offers half-dozen different flavors of the OS at all, Redmond is focusing its energies on two versions – the versions of Home Premium and Professional.
It will sell both a full version of the operating system that can be used on any hardware and upgrade to be used on other PCs. Although both Windows XP and Windows Vista can be upgraded to Windows 7, but Vista can not be rolled back and re-install both programs and data.
A flash of consumer marketing will accompany the launch of Windows 7 is Microsoft’s “I’ma PC” campaign, with the average user, the various aspects of the new operating point of the representation of their idea.
Microsoft plans to launch a formal event here with CEO Steve Ballmer (CNET News, the cover 11 clock and live) event. The software maker opens its first retail store in Scottsdale, Arizona, and a “Windows-Café” in Paris.
Steven Sinofsky, the divisional president, who led development of Windows 7, will chair the Japanese launch of the product, while designer Julie Larson-Green at a ceremony in London.
Microsoft employees in Redmond’s building 37 map distance ring opening of Nasdaq on Thursday, while Microsoft and its partner managers to ring the closing bell.(cnet)
