> 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.