Microsoft is still not releasing many information about Windows 7 and it feels more like connecting the different pieces of a puzzle than anything else to discover news that have not already been covered on multiple other websites. We all suspected for a while that the last quarter of 2009 is the supposed release data of Windows 7.
Long Zheng mentioned an interesting sentence on the official WinHec 2008 website which stated that “there is not another WinHEC planned before Windows 7 is released”. WinHec is the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, an annual event that was just recently moved from the second quarter to the fourth.
It is unlikely that Microsoft will move the schedule of the conference once again in 2009 which suggests that Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing in October 2009. It will then be a matter of 1-2 months before customers can get their hands on the final retail version of Windows 7
