Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2: in Stores on October 22nd

By on June 3, 2009 in WHS v2, windows 7, Windows Home Server

While perusing Ian Dixon’s Digital Lifestyle blog yesterday, I could not help but notice his article titled “Windows 7 General Availability Announced”.  His source was on10.

From the on10 announcement:

Windows 7 will be in stores for the holidays, beginning October 22nd, 2009. In order for this to happen, the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) will be made available to Microsoft partners in the last two weeks of July.

Everything I have seen on Windows 7 blows Vista clear out of the water.  What is even nicer is that once Windows 7 is cast in stone, I would expect Vail development to start heating up.  Why?  Because not only is Windows 7 almost done, but according to ComputerWorld and IDG.net:

Microsoft said on Wednesday that its latest server product, Windows Server 2008 R2, will be broadly available on Oct. 22, the same day as Windows 7.

This means that development of Vail, which is supposed to be based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, should start hitting Warp speed (or so I hope).


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About Jim Clark

Hello. I’m from the heartland of the U.S. Lots of corn and beans, although Iowa is a lot more than just farmland. It also has a few computer enthusiasts (no, not me!). I’ve been around PCs since I got my 1st PC XT aloooong time ago. WGS is one of the first sites I found centered around WHS. And the best. Every once in awhile, I do get away from the KB and enjoy time with and my wife and our 4 kids. And I do have a day job.
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  • JohnCz

    Even at “warp” speed, I don’t expect WHS release until fall 2010. Partly because I believe there will be some Live Mesh dependencies and Live Mesh is still in Beta.

    In any case, I just hope they get the Media Center/XBox/Zune teams together and settle on how WHS might be best utilized.

  • Terry Walsh

    My *guess* would be that we’re definitely looking at a 2010 release for Vail, but Jim’s right, once the code is locked down and stable it should support the team really getting stuck into Vail development.

  • Jim Clark

    And ya-all must remember, our definition of “Warp” speed is most likely vastly different then MS’s definition.

  • Kevin

    Q4 2009 through 2010 is going to be a huge release year for Microsoft.
    *Windows7
    *Server 08 R2
    *Exchange 2010
    *SharePoint 2010
    *Office 2010
    *Project/Visio (etc) 2010
    *WHS V2 (I could see sooner than Fall of 2010)

  • John

    @ Kevin not to mention their zune and xbox platforms are also doing well with some big announcements for both

    Not sure how well zune can compete with iPod when it isn’t available outside the US, tough there.