In a few weeks we are going to be talking about the details of this release at the PDC and at WinHEC. We will be sharing a pre-beta “developer only release” with attendees of both shows and giving them the first broad in-depth look at what we’ve been up to. I can’t wait for them to see it.

And, as you probably know, since we began development of the next version of the Windows client operating system we have been referring to it by a codename, “Windows 7.”  But now is a good time to announce that we’ve decided to officially call the next version of Windows, “Windows 7.”

Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore “Windows 7″ just makes sense.

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