Win7 for next year?
At a conference for the Inter-American Development Bank, where Bill Gates was mostly talk about his projects charitable foundation, a spectator asked him released when the successor to Windows Vista, for now called Windows 7.
“It will be next year,” said Bill Gates.
Before moving on to other issues, the chairman of Microsoft said that the functions which will meet in the new operating system enthousiasmaient the highest point.
After the conference, a spokesman for Microsoft, however, qualified the words of Bill Gates.
“He wanted to speak with a test version and not the final version of the new Windows,” explained to the representative.
In July 2006, remember that Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, has promised to shareholders of the U.S. company that the new operating system will be launched faster than Windows Vista, whose output had occurred five years after that of his predecessor, Windows XP.
According to the webzine TG Daily, a preliminary version of Windows 7 was sent in January 2008 to a few partners of Microsoft to the comments.
The webzine, which also relies on a “roadmap” sent by Microsoft to its partners, says that the successor to Windows Vista could be available in the second half of 2009.