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Windows 7 celebrates its first birthday

by Lee Mathews on July 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM

It's somewhat hard to believe, but Windows 7 turned one year old today. July 22nd of 2009 saw the initial release of the Windows 7 RTM, with torrent sites beating Microsoft to the punch (but hey, that's become sort of a running gag at this point).

Windows 7 has been a huge win for Microsoft so far, pushing customer satisfaction levels to a new high and helping to accelerate the move to 64-bit computing. Next up: service pack 1, which is set to arrive some time in early 2011 -- though it's primarily a rollup of preiouvs hotfixes.

But that's a good thing, right? If customers are so satisfied that probably means no big changes are necessary. Not yet, anyhow. Maybe by the time Windows 7 gets as long in the tooth as Windows XP.

Tags: birthday, microsoft, rtm, win7, windows 7, Windows7

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216Jul 22nd 2010 10:23AM

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Wouldn't the Win7 Birthday be the day it was actually released to customers, October 22?

I guess you can count RTM as the official release because some Business customers can get early access to these versions too

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PrimitiveWallflowerJul 22nd 2010 10:43AM

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Customer satisfaction is high because Microsoft is applying a light touch to XP users and not forcing them to upgrade. Had they decided instead not to support XP for another (sigh) 10 years, you'd hear a lot more gripes about Windows 7.

I guess that's the right business philosophy. Still, I love Windows 7, so I wish my IT department would get a swift kick in the ass to upgrade our XP machines.

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arashJul 22nd 2010 6:30PM

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Who said that 10 years? it was a wrong math from paul:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/xp-in-2020-not-even-close-read-the-fine-print/2270

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DaleJul 23rd 2010 10:44AM

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Now I have an NVidia video card, I am much happier. ATI's drivers were a crap fest for the first few months.

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Making11sJul 23rd 2010 2:37PM

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My only complain about Windows 7 is how many functions are unavailable in the Home Premium version. I had to upgrade to Professional within a week of purchasing, but since that's my only complaint, I'm obviously very impressed with it as a whole.

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