Windows 7 Ship Dates Announced and Some Training Resources to Prepare Yourself
Today we “officially” announced to the world that Windows 7 will be available on retail shelves and from your favorite PC manufacturer come October 22nd, 2009. Apparently some news sources were a little too giddy with the excitement and broke the news yesterday.
The good news for those MSDN and TechNet subscribers is that Windows 7 will actually RTM in the 2nd half of July. It’s reasonably safe to assume that you as an MSDN or TechNet subscriber will have access to the golden Win7 bits come late July.
With the release date of Windows 7 fast approaching, it is part of my job to provide you with material and resources to help with your Windows 7 training efforts. The evangelism team has been visiting various developer communities across the country to share with you the new features developers and IT pros need to be aware of and how they can “light up” their applications on top of the new Windows 7 feature set. You can find where we’re coming next at http://MSDNEvents.com. Also, Bruce Kyle, ISV Technical Evangelist, provided a fantastic list of resources to prepare yourself for Windows 7. I’d highly recommend checking it out.
In addition, here is a list of some of my favorite resource outlets for the latest on Windows 7 for Developers:
- Windows 7 Developer Center of MSDN
- Read the Windows 7 Developer’s Guide
- Visit the Windows 7 for Developers Blog on the Windows Team Blogs site
- Check out the many Windows 7 videos and interviews on Channel 9
- Watch the video of Steven Sinofsky’s PDC 2008 Keynote
- Prepare your applications with the Windows 7 Application Quality Cookbook
- Participate in the ongoing conversations on the Windows Client forums on MSDN
- Check out the resources from our recent MSDN Unleashed events where we covered IE8 and Windows 7
If you have any additional resources that would be of valuable to your fellow developers, please share them in the comments.
