Connecting the dots on Windows 7
What will Windows 7, the next full version of the Windows client operating system, bring to the table?
Even though Windows Vista just made it out the door, it doesn’t seem to early for the speculation on its successor to begin. And Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has become one of the main sources of Windows 7 hints.
In early January, Gates told a group of bloggers with whom he held a private audience at the Consumer Electronics Show to expect the next version of Windows to feature more speech and digital-ink functionality and to take better advantage of 64-bit processing power. He said the next release of Windows was between two and four years away from shipping.
At the Vista launch in New York last week, Gates went further in a surprisingly cantankerous interview with Newsweek’s Steven Levy. (Maybe Gates didn’t like the subject of Levy’s latest book.)
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