TG Daily has gotten there hands on a valuable piece of information ... an early roadmap for Windows 7! Microsoft previously said that general availability of Windows 7 will be in 2010, which may still hold true. Here's the milestone estimates that was outlined in the roadmap:

• Milestone 1 - Already available to Microsoft Partners.
• Milestone 2 - April/May 2008
• Milestone 3 - Third
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One thing that many Vista complaints have in common is that they nearly all say that "it's not Longhorn." That's true, Microsoft made a lot of changes along the road of Vista's development, and they burned through new concepts faster than a Hummer burns through a gallon of gas.

One concept that Long Zheng pulled up from the grave is a

News is buzzing that Windows Fiji really isn’t a codename for Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Instead, it is the codename for what will become a version of Windows that to be released between Vista and Windows Seven (currently slated for release in 2009).

Mary Jo Foley dug this news up on a Microsoft employee’s site, who had said:

Diamond is the version of Windows Media Center which ships with Windows Vista, and

Microsoft just posted the other day that they do not want to give up any details in regard to the next milestone release of Windows. I really don’t blame them for not wanting to disclose any details because that is when they end up pinning themselves in a corner. They should give it a little while to make sure they are on track to meet their 2009 delivery date,

Vista's Successor, Windows Vienna is currently planned for release in 2009.  Originally, Windows Vista was planned for release in 2003, and was to be a "stepping-stone" between XP and Vienna. Instead, Vista was set-back over 3 years, and actually ended up with many of the features that Vienna was to have.

Microsoft has had Vienna in the works for quite some time now, so a release date

So we are just weeks away from the Windows Vista consumer launch but the excitement doesn't seem to be nearly what I would expect it to be. Why? Having used Vista for several months I find a lot of great things that make using Windows a more smooth operation. It is quite disappointing that I can't get the Aero Glass on my laptop (with an integrated

Yes, that is right, the Windows that is in the far far future could be named Vienna now. The previous name was Blackcomb until Robert Scoble, a 'reporter' for Microsoft, stated that the name is being changed to Vienna. If this is true then I think Microsoft has lost their mind. Names like Whistler, Longhorn, and Blackcomb were all cool, but Vienna? Who are we, Oscar Meyer?

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