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.
