Neowing reports, that a Microsoft source confirmed that Windows 7 would not be released next year and it’s on track for 2010, already disclosed earlier this year on Microsoft PressPass, Microsoft Road map charts and indicated by Bill Gates.

Bearing in mind that 2010 is just a little under a year and a half away, it's unreasonable to think that something would be released in between; however we can speculate that SP2 for Windows Vista will come before then and may introduce some new features making the upgrade from XP worthwhile. Pure speculation of course!

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