Microsoft’s answer to less than stellar sales of Vista has been to push hard on the next Windows release, Windows 7. With more and more information leaking out or outright being sent out by Microsoft it’s pretty much agreed upon that Windows 7 will be released sometime in late second quarter to third quarter of 2009. It is very likely we will see a full Beta release in January and I’ve predicted sometime between the 15th to 17th.
It’s somewhat hard to read but it looks like internal builds are at 7004 or higher. Current leaked versions are 6956 and 6801:
The image above is linked directly to the MSDN Blog so we’ll see if it gets pulled. Just in case I have saved a local copy as well.
Just an update the latest “Leaked” version is Build 7000. Word is we are looking at a Jan. 6th release for Beta 1 which is about a week before I had predicted the release would be.