Windows 7

Wu on Windows 7: “Headline risk” for Apple

Microsoft’s (MSFT) new version of Windows is probably still a couple quarters away from official release, but Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu is already trying to measure its negative impact on Apple (AAPL).

“With the potential release of Windows 7 in either 3Q or 4Q of this year,” he writes in a report to clients issued Thursday morning, “we believe we could finally have a Windows operating system worth upgrading to.”