Could This Be Windows 7 Retail Packaging?

[Marcus Yam]

Could this be what Windows 7 will look like in stores?

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[vgdarkstar]

Looks shiny enough to say yes

 

[rags_20]

I'd expect all of them to be blue like XP. Windows 7's color is blue. But there was none for Vista.

 

[jerreece]

Looks good, but probably not final. There's no fine print on the box label.

 

[bustapr]

I doubt these are real, but they sure look good enough.

 

[stlunatic]

These just look like vista cases...

 

[tenor77]

Photoshopping is fun!

They do look the part though.

 

[curnel_D]

I wish I got the pretty boxes with my copies of microsoft products. I know a guy who still shows off his Windows Vista Ultimate box. Lol. I also avoid him like the plauge.

 

[Guest]

I believe the final box art for Ultimate will be Steve Jobs receiving a roundhouse kick to the bawlz. MS is in talks for a contract with Chuck Norris.

 

[IzzyCraft]

It's a case! also it looks a ton better then my duct taped toghter to hold it toghter xp cardboard case i see when i look left of my computer.

 

[teeth_03]

[citation][nom]andetfhddbg[/nom]I believe the final box art for Ultimate will be Steve Jobs receiving a roundhouse kick to the bawlz. MS is in talks for a contract with Chuck Norris.[/citation]

I was actually thinking about a Looney Tunes style picture of Linus Torvalds dropping a big bag of money,smashing Bill Gates on the head...

 

[Guest]

Looks right, because it follows the proper colour scheme and these are the same cases MS is using for other boxed products like Expression Web II.

 

[Guest]

Also, box labels get stickered on, they are not built into the case.

 

[eddieroolz]

Wooo shiny

 

[tpi2007]

"With Microsoft only having confirmed that Windows 7 will be shipping in time for this holiday season"

Well, like I predicted, they said something additional today, so those mught very well be the boxes.

See the news here:

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.25982

To sum it up: Windows 7 be released to manufacturing (RTM) by August.

 

[tpi2007]

Oh, and here is the offial blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/11/OurNextEngineeringMilestone2.aspx

(This is actually yesterday's news)

 

[dragonfang18]

Lol! looks like they had extra vista boxes and just printed windows 7 on em.

 

[IronRyan21]

Are they really gonna call it windows 7? I thought it was just a code name, like longhorn = Vista.

 

[rjkucia]

Have they announced that Windows 7 is the official name? I would like that, it's straight and simple, and that way it can't be confused with Vista.

 

[tpi2007]

[citation][nom]IronRyan21[/nom]Are they really gonna call it windows 7? I thought it was just a code name, like longhorn = Vista.[/citation]

[citation][nom]rjkucia[/nom]Have they announced that Windows 7 is the official name? I would like that, it's straight and simple, and that way it can't be confused with Vista.[/citation]

Errr.... you are both being ironic right ?

Microsoft announced that Windows codenamed "7" would actually be called Windows 7 on the 13th of October of last year. It will be.. 7 months tomorrow.

Check it out: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/10/13/introducing-windows-7.aspx

 

[krazynutz]

The bad perspective makes my eyes hurt!

 

[belardo]

The version names of Win7 home are stupid. They could make things easier for tech support and in chat rooms if they seperate the two homes:

Starter = Starter (Limit market version)
Home Basic = Basic (Less eye candy and bloat for NetPCs)
Home Premium = Home
Business = Professional AKA PRO (MS already did that)
Ultimate = Ultimate

BASIC and HOME - they don't need two words each.

It's VERY VERY simple Microsoft, do it now and save some headache.

 

[tmike]

i hate these damn boxes. Granted, the oversized XP "folders" were ridiculous too, but these fat mostly-empty red-pull-tab things blow. and not in a good way.

 

[acecombat]

[citation][nom]rags_20[/nom]I'd expect all of them to be blue like XP. Windows 7's color is blue. But there was none for Vista.[/citation]
Obviously you failed to notice the Green (Home), Blue (Business) and Black (Ultimate) that Vista came in then?

 

[Dave_69]

nice. they got the box to look nice, now why do the included wallpapers look so ugly?