On October 22, 2009, Microsoft released the Windows 7 operating system worldwide, the widely-expected remedy to the company’s former ill-fated Windows Vista operating system.

Windows 7 since then enjoyed higher sales than any of its predecessors’ releases.

Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, said that they’ve already sold twice as many units of Windows 7 than any other Windows operating system they’ve ever launched. He said that Windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has ever built.

Meanwhile, information about Microsoft’s next major operating system suggests that it will be released sometime in 2012. Codenamed "Windows 8," the details appeared in two roadmap timeline slides shown by Microsoft at 2009 Professional Developers Conference (PDC).

PDC is an annual Windows software developers conference that usually takes place in Los Angeles, California.

According to a separate information leaked by an employee, Windows 8 will feature or support 128 bit architecture.

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Let’s have a look.

Steve Ballmer says,

“I just wanna end where I started. I thank you guys so much for all the business that we do together. I’m incredibly excited about the amazing opportunity. We have Windows 7, baby – I mean, Windows 7. This is a year, we can all, despite the economy, we can really get out there and pop up the volume so to speak. And I thank you in advance, I appreciated in advance, and I’ll die if we can’t relative to the economy really just – boom – make great things happen this year together, then we can’t do it in a year. I got confidence in what we got, but I really have confidence in what you can do with it.”

Microsoft confirmed that during the TechEd North America 2009. However, the tech community is rather bit worried about this announcement as Microsoft have consistently said that Windows 7 would be a 2010 product and that a release this year could be a premature move.

However, despite rumblings, Microsoft said that it’s confident that the Windows 7 ecosystem is already good to go. It also promised over 10,000 Windows-friendly products making the new operating system free from glitches that were experienced in Vista.

Meanwhile, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 has recently gone gold and it is expected to be released within the next few weeks.

The key benefits of Windows Vista SP2 include:

• Windows Search 4.0 for faster and improved search results
• Bluetooth 2.1 Feature Pack
• Native support of Blu-ray media in Windows Vista
• Windows Connect Now to simplify Wi-Fi configuration and
• an update for exFAT file system to support UTC timestamps

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Windows XP remained popular up to these days because of its notable speed and compatibility — factors both worldwide businesses and consumers want that Microsoft failed to deliver when it launched Windows Vista.

Dubbed as XPM or XP Mode, Microsoft claims that the feature provides near-perfect compatibility of Windows XP applications in Windows 7. Considering that Windows 7′s system requirements are on par with Windows Vista, enabling the XPM however will require a more powerful machine with at least 2 GB of RAM.

Having built on same platform as Microsoft’s Virtual PC 7 product, XPM will take advantage of virtualization
technologies in-built from CPUs such as the Intel VT-x for recent Intel CPUs and AMD-V for AMD processors.

Through XPM, users will be able to install and launch Windows XP applications on Windows 7 desktop, and can even run alongside the same application of Windows 7 version, without affecting the core operating system. This means the inclusion of the XPM feature on Windows 7 will not undermine its speed, stability and security. Microsoft will include a full Windows XP SP3 license with every legal copy of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate for use with XPM.

A release candidate version of Windows 7 is expected to be available to the general public for download
on May 5th. The RC version means that Microsoft is now on the final stages of completing the operating system which will succeed the unpopular Window Vista.