Acer exec accidentally leaks Windows 7 launch date

David Meyer, one of our esteemed colleagues at Crave's sister site ZDNet UK, was in a meeting yesterday with Acer when an executive for the computer let the cat out of the bag on Windows 7's release date.

Acer's vice-president for Europe, Massimo D'Angelo, was getting excited about AIO, the company's forthcoming All In One PC, with all sorts of things like multitouch, which show off all the wonderful capabilities of Windows 7 -- and he said that it would be in-store at the back end of September, using Windows 7 technology.

David asked whether D'Angelo had just outed the release date for Windows 7. He replied no, the AIO would go on sale on 23 October "and not a day before".

There was a flurry from the ranks at that point, and the marketing guy looked as if he'd pay almost anything to have Massimo retro-fitted with Control-Z. But what was said could not be unsaid -- and while there's no confirmation of the date from anyone else, it is our firm impression from the circumstances of the blooper that it's accurate.