Sneak Peek at Windows 7

The most basic software that every user uses on his computer is, without any doubt, the operating system. Another sure thing is that, with all its problems, Microsoft Windows has been the dominant operating system on the market in the last decade, and things aren't going to change anytime soon, as I see it. While Windows Vista didn't receive it's first Service Pack, new information about its follower is already surfacing...



Windows 7, known as Blackcomb in its early days, and then codenamed Vienna, is expected to be Vista's successor on the market, but the planned development time frame should be at least 3 years, according to Microsoft. If they manage to delay it as they did with Vista, then we shouldn't expect it to become publicly available as a final release earlier than 2012, but let's not draw early conclusions, because there are more important things to find out!Probably the Vienna codename will also become a part of the past, because now, this future product is known as "Windows Seven" or "Windows 7", and the University of Illinois had recently the privilege of seeing an amazing demo from Eric Traut, a chief operating system design engineer from Microsoft. To view the movie of this demo, simply click this link.

Did you like the looks of the Windows stripped to the bone? Fortunately, the next Windows version is not going to look like that, but it's good to see that Microsoft is working on optimizing the old NT-based kernel.

For now, this can be considered only a technology preview, and I am not going to tell you anything about Microsoft's efforts headed towards virtualization, because at this time, I want to consider "MinWin" exactly what it is: a split-second glance into the future. Please watch the movie and share with us your opinions below...