In article <✉forums.codegear.com>, Joe Demartino wrote:

> Ever hear of Microsoft giving out its beta of Windows 7 to anyone who 
> wanted it for a *year* prior to release, so that the positive buzz it 
> generated would help sales?

When it shipped. The sensible advice to anyone thinking of buying a 
computer through normal retail outlets during mid-2009 was to hold off 
for Windows 7 unless desperate.


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