Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News:
In a technical session on Thursday afternoon, Microsoft provided the clearest public indication that it is planning on getting Windows 7 completed in time to run on PCs that ship for next year’s holiday buying season.
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Windows Vista Team Blog : Why 7?:
So we decided to ship the Windows 7 code as Windows 6.1
Makes sense, uh?

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Google’s G1: First Impressions | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsD:
Google’s G1: First Impressions
So, The Moss got his hands on a preview unit of the Google/HTC “G1″ phone, based on Google’s Android, planned for release sometime in October.
And what does he have to say about it? Let’s find out…
It will be sold in the U.S. [...]

Here’s a killer comparative test: BBB vs iPhone in WiFi web browsing test…

At one point the guy doing the video commentary says that the BBB’s browser is better at telling you what it is doing, downloading script, image, percentage of the page loaded… Yes, they HAD to put these sorts of indications in, so [...]

Are iPhone app devs getting a raw deal? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):
We mentioned yesterday a rumor that Apple won’t cut a check for iPhone application developers until the dev’s share of the sales tops $250. [...]
From the (indie) developer’s perspective, this stinks. They’ve already paid at least $99 just to participate, and now [...]

So here we are with a new iPhone killer… wait, the killer is late, its target is already dead! Samsung’s Instinct was supposed to go snipe the iPhone, but Apple already sent it to rest, and now iPhone 2 is coming…
Walt Mossberg on Samsung’s Instinct:
Also, the timing of the Instinct is unfortunate. It was designed [...]

VistaPerfection 2.0:

So, like, urgh, they even have the boot screen with ugly progress bar and all.
Hmm, maybe if they have been really good, they have managed to reproduce the slowness, the bugs and even the annoying UAC behavior (maybe the iPhone will ask you for your PIN code every time you want to make a [...]

And so I continue my venture in the shadowy depth of Mac Office 2008, wondering whether I shall finally stay with the 2004 edition… not that it was great (it wasn’t, on an Intel machine), but the 2008 edition fixed almost no bugs from the 2004 version, and added a whole lot of new bugs.So [...]