Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 is right on track for release in 2010. Concomitantly with the leaked details associated with Windows 7 Milestone 1 dropped by the Redmond company to select partners in January 2008, a potential timetable for the availability of the successor of Windows Vista was also made public. According to the leaked information on the next iteration of the Windows platform, having just reached M1, the final version of Windows 7 was to be wrapped up the end of 2009. That schedule more closely reflects the consumer Windows release cycles from the 1990s, when Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows 98 succeeded each other at roughly three-year intervals. The cycle was broken by the quick succession of Windows ME and Windows XP, followed by the five-year dry spell between the launches of Windows XP and Windows Vista.