Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th Jan 2008 21:49 UTC, submitted by Bleistift
TG Daily is busy rumouring about Windows 7. "Several industry sources have confirmed to TG Daily that a very early version of Windows 7, previously code-named Blackcomb Vienna, already has been shipped to 'key partners' as a 'Milestone 1' code drop for validation purposes. A roadmap received by TG Daily indicates that the new operating system will be introduced in the second half of 2009."
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Well, personally I don't think it will be the second half of 2009, it will be 2011 at the earliest I would guess, but not because of what happened with Vista, but because of what other OS's including OS X will have in them by then, MS will need to catch up and add those features too. They have to catch up on 2 fronts, the OS and the mobile phone side and come up with something to take on the iPhone, which will mean a version of windows that can run on a small platform and compete (even at the current 2008 level) with some of what the iPhone and Leopard are doing as far as the API level is concerned.
Well in a manner, that is what MinWin and Windows Core are about - stripping down the OS to the bare "essentials" (sorry, I don't agree that a GUI is an essential) and then building up from there. It should allow them to separate out parts of the system for development, and integrate them back in more efficiently. So, it may be possible that a H2 2009 or H1 2010 might be possible. We'll see.
You are right though about catching up. Even Vista has needs to play catchup in many respects. ;-)