Windows 7 Due Next Year, Says Microsoft Chairman.

Written by admin in Vista News

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday indicated that Windows 7, the next major version of Windows, could come within the next year, far ahead of the development schedule previously indicated by the software maker.

In response to a question about Windows Vista, Gates, speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank here, said: “Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version.” Referring to Windows 7, the code name for the next full release of Windows client software, Gates said: “I’m super-enthused about what it will do in lots of ways.”

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5 comments op “Windows 7 Due Next Year, Says Microsoft Chairman.”

1. Wnd50 said: (Tuesday 08 April, 2008 )

   windows 3.5 ,’95, ME, XP,Vista: upgradePremium, Home Premium32.
   Any REBATES to all of us?
2. pg said: (Wednesday 16 April, 2008 )

   Err….”Sometime in the next year or so” does not mean it’s due next year as your headline implies! Gates made an ambiguous, open-ended comment that stated nothing definitive at all. Now, doesn’t that sound familiar…

3. John Henry said: (Thursday 24 April, 2008 )

   So was Vista just a waste of my time, and how soon will they quit supporting Vista?
4. darknite22 said: (Sunday 04 May, 2008 )

   You mean they were actually supporting Vista?!?!?!?! I must have missed something…

5. john shaw said: (Thursday 15 May, 2008 )

   what a waste of vista….I had to upgrade my system to a core 2 quad and 4 gig RAM for nothing!!!!!
   unless windows 7 is just like vista, and will take that power
   I hope not

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