Windows 7 - 2010!?!

It seems there are a looot of people waiting for Microsoft to show us a better operating system in the future, and the first stop is - obviously - Windows 7. A few minutes ago, I was amazed to find a site started last year dedicated entirely to this subject - Windows 7 news, but that site is not my topic now, as you can easily figure out. The news is that, despite what Bill Gates previously said, it seems Windows 7 will arrive in 2010.


Getting back to Bill Gates' previous declarations, is enough to quote the following: "Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version [with] the ability to be lower-power, take less memory, be more efficient, and have lots more connections."

Various reports claim this week we may even see a Windows 7 demo, at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital Conference, aka D6, while others say Microsoft will only show some future technologies, and not Windows 7 itself.

Next, I have some sad news for you - Windows 7 won't be rewritten from scratch, so it's going to use the same foundation as Vista. Obviously, considering the above, it shouldn't be a surprise the fact that Windows 7 will support a wide range of hardware already compatible with Vista at the time of its launch, in 2010, and hardware requirements should be pretty light, when that moment comes.

At last, let's see the funny part of it all - when asked about a future Windows version, Bill Gates said "sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version," but now, Windows chief Steven Sinofsky told CNET "We've been very clear, and will continue to say, that the next release of Windows, Windows 7, is about three years after the general availability of Windows Vista, and we're committed to that, and we've signed up publicly to do that."

Ehem...what am I missing here? Who's right and who's wrong? Probably there's no accurate answer to that, and it still seems a very long way until 2010...

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