14 DAY TRIAL // Unless you live under a rock, you already know that Microsoft officially released Windows 7 for the general public on October 22nd, 2009. The main launch event was in New York, featuring among others Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. I was telling you yesterday that the Windows 7 General Availability keynote managed, outside of being quite entertaining, to deliver a taste of just what Windows 7 is capable of, and to also highlight some items from the new lineup of computers that are running the operating system. Microsoft streamed the event live for people around the world, and as soon as the NY GA release party was over, the company made available the Windows 7 Launch Event On-Demand Keynote.
At the bottom of this article you will be able to find embedded the entire Windows 7 launch event from start to finish, just in case you weren’t able to watch it online and live. Microsoft has put together an extraordinary presentation of the operating system. And Windows 7 shines, without a shadow of a doubt.
“What is Windows 7 at the end of the day? What were we really most trying to do? We were trying to make the everyday usage of the PC better in the ways our customers wanted: Simpler, faster, more responsive. And so for the billion people who use Windows, for the perhaps as many as 300 million people who may buy a PC during the course of the next 12 months, we want to give a chance for people to have a better and better experience and at the same time, enable a world of new opportunities, new applications to do new things,” Ballmer noted.
Microsoft’s CEO indicates that the company regards Windows 7 as a step closer to an overall vision that the software giant is working to articulate, namely bridging together the three main screens in the household. Even at this point in time, Windows 7 makes it seamless to connect PCs, phones, and TV.
“What's special about Windows 7 and the way it came together and why I think we have a little extra special secret sauce somehow in the making of Windows 7. And it really came about from an intense collaboration between our own engineering organization and our partners, a group of about 50,000 partners, software vendors, hardware vendors, peripheral vendors, and our customers. And our customers. Whether it's all of the data that we get back from customers about how they're using Windows and what they'd like to see different and improved, whether it's the feedback we got from the 8 million beta test customers, all of that came together in a very unique blend,” Ballmer added. Read the Windows 7 Softpedia Review to get additional insight on the OS.