BWI: Microsoft Releases Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for Manufacturing

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Microsoft
Thursday, July 30, 2009 03:23 PM IST (09:53 AM GMT)
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Microsoft Releases Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for Manufacturing
Industry Partners Finalizing New Products in Time for Worldwide Launch

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Thursday, July 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Microsoft today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the next versions of its flagship desktop and server operating systems. This signals the completion of the development phase and industry partners including OEMs and Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs), are now readying products in time for the worldwide general launches of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows 7 will be available by October to customers across the world, with current Windows Volume License customers, MSDN subscribers and TechNet subscribers getting first access in the coming weeks itself.

Commenting on the announcement G. Ramesh, Director, Windows Client, Microsoft India said, "Today we have reached a significant milestone in delivering Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to manufacturing. For our partners and us this has entailed a huge amount of collaborative working and we're extremely excited about the value these products will bring to our customers. Together we have listened to customers, defined specific experiences based on their expressed needs and accordingly built features to support them.We are overwhelmed with the response to the Windows 7 early adoption program for customers, with a large number of companies having already enrolled for it."

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Commenting on the announcement G. Ramesh, Director, Windows Client, Microsoft India said, "Today we have reached a significant milestone in delivering Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to manufacturing. For our partners and us this has entailed a huge amount of collaborative working and we're extremely excited about the value these products will bring to our customers. Together we have listened to customers, defined specific experiences based on their expressed needs and accordingly built features to support them.We are overwhelmed with the response to the Windows 7 early adoption program for customers, with a large number of companies having already enrolled for it."

With Windows 7, Microsoft is delivering a foundation for exceptional customer experiences across applications, services and devices. Windows 7 enhances PC manageability and introduces compelling new experiences, delivering an operating system that is nimble, highly reliable, more secure, optimized for today's powerful hardware and able to easily connect with the devices people use today. It reflects an evolved approach to engineering that weaves customer and partner feedback more closely into the development process. Windows 7 delivers innovative new features while focusing on preserving application and device compatibility.

Commenting on the milestone, Diptesh Ghosh, Category Head, Consumer Notebooks, Personal Systems Group, HP India, said, "As the leader in the PC market, HP has always worked towards enriching the users' computing experience through technology innovations and right partnerships with industry players. We are very confident about the potential of Windows 7 and the enhanced value it will deliver to users. The development process has been collaborative and we have worked with Microsoft to ensure that the product conforms to customer requirements. Due to this early collaboration, at HP we have engineered truly innovative PCs - from thin and light notebooks to high-performance desktops - that will provide advanced performance, compelling user experiences and more functionality overall."

"We're excited about the potential of Windows 7 and the combined value we can provide to our customers. Microsoft has got the "fundamentals" right - Windows 7 performs better and works with existing software and hardware. The new OS also gives Wipro an ideal platform to deliver a far more enriched and differentiated experience to customers," said Ashok Tripathy, General Manager and Head, Wipro Systems and Technology, Wipro Limited.

S Rajendran, Chief Marketing Officer, Acer India, shared similar views, "At Acer, we are quite excited to partner with Microsoft to usher in the new Windows 7 platform across our product range. We believe it would be a defining moment for the customer. It has a whole range of pluses - less demanding on resources, an elegantly intuitive user interface, significant improvements in security, power management and stability. These would go to render a wholesome customer experience delivering tangible productivity benefits."

Together, it is expected that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will help reduce the cost and complexity for businesses customers, besides making users more productive by automating everyday tasks, delivering enhanced security, and streamlining manageability.

Windows Server 2008 R2 builds on the award-winning foundation of Windows Server 2008, expanding existing technology and adding new innovations that enable customers to save costs, be more efficient today and more effective tomorrow. New virtualization tools, Web resources, management enhancements, and exciting Windows 7 integration will help customers increase the reliability, flexibility and efficiency of their server infrastructures.

More information can be obtained on both products from the following links:

-- Windows Team Blog, http://windowsteamblog.com
-- Windows Server Blog, http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver
-- Partner Web sites, http://readyset7.com and http://talkingaboutwindows.com/Default.aspx
-- Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for businesses, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/default.aspx and http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2.aspx

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. Microsoft Corporation India Private Ltd is a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation USA. It has had a presence in India since 1990 and currently has offices in 16 cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, and Pune.
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