Windows 7 Due out in June 2009?

Windows 7 Due out in June 2009?

Techtree News Staff, Sep 16, 2008 1528 hrs IST

So says a source close to Microsoft

Recollect when Bill Gates mentioned that Microsoft Windows Vista's successor -- Windows 7 will be released as early as next year? Later Microsoft declared that Windows 7 will ship in early 2010. We also learnt last week that Microsoft will open up Windows 7 for beta testing in December of this year.

Today bring news that Microsoft will commercially release Windows 7 as early as the 3rd June, 2009. This news comes from InternetNewsa source (unidentified, of course) close to the inner-workings of Microsoft. The source claims that the internal builds known as the Milestone builds are already being made available for testing and certification for hardware vendors. At the Professional Developers Conference on 27th October this year, the first Windows 7 public beta will be released. Before that another Milestone 3 build will be available for internal beta testers.

Microsoft has commented that Windows 7's development and shipping will take place three years after Windows Vista's January 2007 shipping date. While the Project Mojave experiment and Gates-Seinfield ads struggle to create buzz around Windows Vista, the news of Windows 7 triggers curiosity.

Windows 7 is an evolutionary OS based on Windows Vista and won't offer anything path-breaking besides adding software support to a multi-touch interface and Mac OSX-like dock.

Here's a leaked video of Windows 7 Milestone 1 build: