Friday, September 25, 2009

Microsoft gives green light to early Windows 7 PC sales

Microsoft has given small system builders the green light to start selling new Windows 7 PCs more than a week before the general launch date of Oct. 22, a Seattle-area computer maker said today.

According to Jon Bach, the president of Puget Systems, several Microsoft representatives have told him that his company, which sells custom PCs nationally out of its Auburn, Wash., facility, can install Windows 7 on new machines, then sell and ship them to customers on Oct. 13.

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