Microsoft have confirmed that Windows 7 is on track for holiday season 2009, its been widely expected that Windows 7 would ship before the end of the year but this is the first time that Microsoft has officially acknowledged the 2009 release date. Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows Team Blog said:

If the telemetry we receive from the Windows 7 RC meets our expectations in terms of quality, then we expect to hit RTM in 3 months or so. Again, check out Steven’s blog post on this process. If this happens, it looks like we’ll be able to have Windows 7 done in time for the holidays. I want to underscore that our top priority remains QUALITY. This guidance does not alter that principle.

As I said in my post today Windows 7 is running great for me (but looking at the comment there are some people still with issues), we all want to get hold of the release version as soon as we can and I expect PC makers will be eager to get Windows 7 on to their systems ASAP

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