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Vista will be sold until January of 2011

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

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According to a spokesperson for Microsoft the company expects to continue marketing its operating system Windows Vista until January 2011.

This is a little odd if we think we are now able to download Windows 7 RC, which would be marketed later this year or early next. With one year would be sold both OSes.

As for the support of Vista the company plans to extend it until April 2012, quite short compared with the support of XP, whose expiration date would be April, 2007 (in its various versions).

We know that Microsoft can offer its products for as long as it sees fit, but it is not clear if there is someone willing to buy Vista if Windows 7 is just out of the oven.

Link: Microsoft: Sun Will Slowly Set on Vista (Via PC World)

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Windows 7 RC now available

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

This is already available  for all the mortals version Release Candidate of Windows 7, the mentioned version Build 7100 with new features that you will be able to unload until the 30 of June of this year and will be able to use until June of the 2010.

Microsoft recommends a 1GHz processor or better, 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit), 16 GB hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB in the case of a processor 64-bit and a GPU that supports DirectX 9. It will also be necessary to check if the processor meets the requirement of virtualization if we use the Windows XP Mode: Intel (Intel VT) / AMD (AMD-V).

According to a bulletin Technet, users of Windows 7 Beta if you need to do a backup and do a clean install, while Windows users can upgrade to Windows Vista RC without any problems, yet they suggest not thrilled because in either case to test Windows 7 RTM later be forced to do an installation from scratch.

Microsoft is very optimistic and there will surely be more surprises as they say ™ appears as a second RC version in August before the final RTM (Release to Manufacturing).

Link: Windows 7 RC (Microsoft)

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