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Dell contradicts Microsoft, says Windows 10 will be installed on PCs starting July 29. It turns out Windows 10 will be installed on PCs from four major manufacturers.
Dell Inc. CEO Michael Dell said on Twitter that he expects Windows 10 to ship on new Dell PCs on July 29, contradicting a statement made yesterday by Microsoft.
Microsoft, which is still testing the highly anticipated operating system, said consumers would have to work with their local retailers to upgrade to Windows 10 after purchasing their new devices, in a blog post.
This means that all new units, such as the Dell XPS 15, on which Microsoft demoed Windows 10 during Computex, would not come with Windows 10 preinstalled, but rather users would have to upgrade at retail locations.
After some confusion regarding what was actually going to happen, Microsoft announced:
[...] Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Acer will begin shipping PCs on July 29 with Windows 10 preinstalled, Microsoft told Bloomberg.
Yusuf Mehdi, Vice President of Windows and Device Marketing, was mistaken when he wrote in a blog post that PCs shipping on July 29 would not have the new operating system preinstalled.
Original Submission
(Score: 2, Interesting) by seeprime on Wednesday July 15 2015, @12:52PM
With two weeks to go and RTM still not available, it is going to be stressful to get new PC's loaded with Windows 10 and shipped worldwide. So, probably a very limited number of machines will be sold with Windows 10 on July 29th. With air freight costs high I'm pretty sure the OEM's aren't looking to have existing store computers drop in value while paying extra to get the new PC's on store shelves. High end lightweight laptops are the only Windows 10 PC's likely to be on store shelves on Jul 29th.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @02:25PM
I expect to see lots of Haswell 'win8/7' boxes for black friday sales...
I have noticed that there are not a lot of 'new' laptops. As sales have dropped off decently plus intel has kinda wiffed broadwell with a fairly limited set of chips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwell_%28microarchitecture%29 [wikipedia.org] Not like Haswell that has about 200 variants. So there are a lot of non refreshed platforms out there with Haswell chips.
I would not touch any of these current boxes. They will all be rush jobs. So poor support and EOL in 6 months. The OEMs do that pretty much every time following intels lead and not Microsoft's.. The ones for the skylake CPU will be where you want to look at a new OEM box if you are going that route and probably mid next year. Most of the gotchas will be well known and possibly fixed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:52PM
There is going to be tons of issues. I expect a lot of "Windows ate my homework" complaints for a while. And the push out to Windows 7 and 8 users- I just cannot see this going well. Intel is on their tick with Broadwell so I do not expect to see anything interesting power-wise until Skylake later this year so I would definitely agree that there will be tons of Black Friday Broadwell deals. The more interesting formfactors you can do with Skylake probably will be released for Christmas season.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:45PM
I think the relevant date is the Win10 Enterprise availability to VLA customers which seems to be "fall"; that's the real RTM. The recent preview builds have not been bad but they definitely do not feel RTM ready.