Microsoft Readies Major Launch Wave

by admin July 6, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Windows 7’s October release will mark the first of a number of new offerings from Redmond.

A Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) official said Monday that the software maker is preparing for “one of the biggest launch waves” in its history with a flurry of new product releases that will kick off with the Oct. 22nd release of Windows 7 and the shipping of Windows Server 2008 R2.

In the months following the release of its new client and server operating systems, Microsoft will introduce Office 2010, and new versions of Windows Mobile, SharePoint Server and Exchange Server, said Allison Watson, corporate VP for Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group, in a statement.

“This will be one of the biggest launch waves in the history of Microsoft,” said Watson.

Read more: informationweek.com