October 22 is the release date ..

Johnny · Jul 18, 2009

Got an email from MS saying that Windows 7 is going to be released tot he public October 22. I wonder how long the lines are going to be ..

Bman · Jul 19, 2009

You just received the email, but it was announced everywhere else awhile ago.

And what do you mean about how long the lines are going to be?

Dark Atheist · Jul 19, 2009

people lining up to buy it

Bman · Jul 19, 2009

Whoops, how did I not understand that lol

I hope there is no lines lol At least around here.

ming · Jul 19, 2009

Bman said:

HAHAHA!!!
I'm sure with some many people having internet connections, there won't be anything like there were for Windows 95.

epk · Jul 19, 2009

hahah.. there were lines for win 95? didnt know about that

(semi) on topic.. woohoo, 2 days before my bday

thanks microsoft :]

Xie · Jul 19, 2009

epk said:

Of course there was, at the time Windows 95 was ground breaking and let you take advantage of your whole 100MB HD and you didn't have to reboot to play DOS games.

Ah, memories.

Johnny · Jul 19, 2009

The lines for Vista were pretty long as well. I am looking for them to be crazy for this one.

zeke_mo · Jul 19, 2009

There shouldnt be too long of lines considering the 50% discount on preorders that was offered a few weeks ago. 50 bucks for W7 home premium was too good to pass up

American Zombie · Jul 19, 2009

From what I have read you will also be able to purchase then download the RTM.

Johnny · Jul 20, 2009

I would rather get it from the store in the box though ...

Bman · Jul 20, 2009

Johnny said:

I am the same way these days. I don't know why.

zeke_mo · Jul 20, 2009

Yeah, a few of online stores I have purchased downloadable software from limit downloads and all sorts of fun stuff. Good old dvds usually don't pull such nonsense

epk · Jul 20, 2009

Bman said:

?? u have like a million steam games ;D

Remar · Aug 2, 2009

Bman said:

Same here, I will not download any software unless there is an option for the retailer to ship you a cd/dvd, I ran into a problem with Blizzard Ent. and my roomates WoW account. As soon as WotLK released and they had major problems, and they seemed to have "lost" the BC x-pack that I had bought via download, and since I had no cd or box, there was nothing they would do for me.

Electronic Punk · Aug 2, 2009

You can download it all

American Zombie · Aug 2, 2009

Remar said:

Same here, I will not download any software unless there is an option for the retailer to ship you a cd/dvd, I ran into a problem with Blizzard Ent. and my roomates WoW account. As soon as WotLK released and they had major problems, and they seemed to have "lost" the BC x-pack that I had bought via download, and since I had no cd or box, there was nothing they would do for me.

Huh?

No burner?

Any software I paid for I burn to CD or DVD.