Windows 7 will go to “Release to Manufacturing” status in July, with general availability by October. Read more at the WinSuperSite Blog.
–Mark
Paul Thurott has some interesting thoughts about the future of Windows backward compatibility plans for the future over at his SuperSite Blog:
I’ve said this before, but let me say it again in one of those “mark my words” things: Seamless application virtualization, like that offered by MED-V, is the future of application compatibility in Windows. This will allow future Windows OSes to break from the past, compatibility-wise, because they’ll be able to virtualize compatibility.
Be sure to visit “istartedsomething” to see the Microsoft future video—called 2019—in its full format.
Microsoft has fun envisioning the future and communicates this vision with extremely high production value.