Windows 7不会晚于明年6月公开发售？

Win7之家（ www.win7china.com）：Windows 7不会晚于明年6月公开发售？

 从Windows 7刚刚透露出消息到现在，关于Windows 7的发布时间，已经有了太多版本的推测。有说2009年7月的，有说2009年年底的，也有说2010年初的，而在我看来，Windows 7的发布时间比大多数人想象中的要早得多。下面，我也来对Windows 7进行一些具体的猜测。

现在大家都知道微软将会在2009年1月时公开发布Windows 7的Beta版本，而这也将是唯一的Beta版本，在此之后，就轮到Windows 7 RC了，再后就是最终正式版了。我认为Windows 7最早会在明年4月发布，与Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)保持同步。因为事实上，Windows 7和SP2共享了不少代码。另外，Windows 7的公开发售日期不会晚于明年6月。

根据我的理解，Vista SP2和Windows 7将会是软硬件兼容性的基础，因此，Vista SP2和Windows 7共享了部分代码，这样一来，只要是SP2上能用的软件和设备，就肯定可以在Windows 7中运行。

小编：从该作者的文章中看来，他的推测还是很有道理的，但现在关于这个发布时间的版本实在太多，而微软的跳票习惯又是出了名的，现在我们能做的也只有等待了，幸亏还时不时地有个泄露版本可以尝尝鲜。

附部分原文：

I’ll be publishing this in Short Takes later this morning, but I thought it would be of interest here in the blog as well:

    There's been a lot of speculation about when Microsoft would ship Windows 7, its eagerly awaited follow-up to Windows Vista. So far, I've suggested that the company would ship Windows 7 far earlier than most people thought. But now I'm ready to make a number of more specific predictions myself, and add to the speculation.

    It's pretty widely known that Microsoft will ship a beta release (and a public one at that) of Windows 7 in January. This beta will be the only beta and it will be followed by a single release candidate build, and then the final version, all in quick succession. I expect Windows 7 to be finalized by April 2009 at the latest, and to be completed simultaneously with Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2), which is also due in April. (Windows 7 and SP2 share more code than people realize as well, by the way.) Windows 7 will be made broadly available to consumers and business customers no later than June 2009.

    And those, folks, are my predictions for the release of Windows 7.

One other factoid: My understanding is that Vista SP2 and Windows 7 will be the baseline for both application and device compatibility going forward, and that’s a big part of the code sharing between these two releases. The idea is that if it works in Vista (with SP2) it will absolutely work in Windows 7 as well.