Microsoft spokesman announced that the highly expected Windows 7 operating system will be on sale from October 22 2009 in order to catch up with the end of year Christmas holiday shopping time. Spokesman also said that Microsoft will launch a Windows Upgrade Option plan for users who purchase of pre-loaded Vista PC to upgrade to Windows 7.

Microsoft plans to launch numbers of versions for Windows 7, including an early stage Starter Edition vision, follow by Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise Edition, as well as the Home Basic version for emerging market.

Microsoft hopes the release of Windows 7 OS can save the Vista’s market decline in both enterprise and end-consumers. Windows 7 is also considered as Microsoft’s most easy-to-use products; the features including support for touch screen, as well as of desktop search, PC to PC file transmission to increase the work efficiency.

The Beta version of Windows 7 will be expired from July 1 2009. Since then, if the user is still using the Beta version of Windows 7, the computer will automatically shut-down and restart every two hours. Microsoft uses this interference to encourage users to install Windows 7 Release Candidate version. And this version will be able to use till 1st June 2010. After that users have to pay and upgrade to full version of Windows 7.

Edited By Henry Lu