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Windows 7 Makes It on Microsoft.com for the First Time


section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 17.7.2008

This is certainly a premiere... Windows 7 has managed to make it on a Microsoft.com home page for the first time.




It's an unlikely position for the next iteration of the Windows operating system, which the Redmond company is keeping tight under wraps for now. And even more so as, following the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, the past week in Houston, Texas, where the software giant indicated that it was focusing entirely on Windows Vista Service Pack 1. But still, Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, can rest assured that nothing has leaked on the successor of Windows Vista.

The official website of Microsoft Canada is the Microsoft.com localized home page that features the Windows 7 reference, under the highlights section. However, the fragment of text reading "Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President, Online Services and Windows Business Group, outlines Microsoft’s commitment to Windows Vista now and in the future,

Microsoft’s support for Windows XP as we approach the retail end-of-sales date of June 30 and the future of Windows including Windows 7" is nothing more than an excerpt from the official document signed by Veghte designed to trash Windows XP and Windows 7 as potential Vista SP1 alternatives.

There will come a time, by all indications from Microsoft, by the end of 2009, when Windows 7, under its real label, not just the product number/codename, will flood Microsoft.com properties, just as Windows Vista after January 30, 2008. But for now, the Redmond company is only looking forward to the Professional Developer Conference 2008 (PDC2008) from the 27th to the 30th of October in Los Angeles. Out of 160 sessions, at least four will deal with Windows 7 graphics, energy consumption evolution, touch computing technology and web services in native code. Over three months to go...

source: news.softpedia.com

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