This past week, reports that Microsoft planned to ship the next client version of it’s Windows Operating System known as Windows "7" in the second half of 2009 are all but true.

Contrary to the many reports of the 2009 release timeframe, Microsoft issued a statement late yesterday regarding the rumored 2009 release date. According to sources Microsoft is still in the early planning stages of development of Windows "7" and the company expects that it will take 3 years to develop the operating system. In addition, the company also said the specific release date will be determined once the company meets its quality bar for release.

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  Not too long ago did Microsoft ship the first milestone build for the forthcoming Windows "7" and the days following leaks of information and even screenshots have come pouring onto the internet. The start of the information leaks, and the screenshots, who knew that it would only be days after that the current Windows ‘7" Milestone 1 (M1) build would be leaked to the internet.

Most recently we have spotted the build on various torrent sites throughout the web, while most of them appear to be fakes and could potentially be dangerous if downloaded and installed, all but a few have been verified as fakes and have …

Microsoft said today that the company planned to release an updated Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate Refresh to testers today. The company said that the new version, dubbed “Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2,” has been released to about 15,000 beta testers. The code is not being made available publicly, Microsoft said.

The product is still on track to be finalized this quarter, Microsoft said, “The final release date is based on quality, so we will continue to track customer and partner feedback from the beta program before setting a final date,” the company said. Earlier this month, Microsoft released the first refresh to the release …

Microsoft has said previously that the company intends to ship Windows Vista Service Pack 1 before the end of the first quarter this year. With the service pack reaching the final stages in testing, Microsoft is getting ready to deliver the much anticipated update to Windows Vista.

Currently Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista is in the Release Candidate stage of development, in addition, the company released what they call the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh build a couple of weeks back to the public. The company is currently working on fixing any bugs in the latest release, the company has set the release date …

  At the end of the past week, the Redmond company was confirmed to have delivered Windows 7 Milestone 1, exclusively to key partners. At that time, Microsoft remained completely mute on Windows 7, not confirming and not denying, in fact not commenting at all on the development of the next iteration of Windows. But with Windows 7 Milestone 1 available outside of Redmond, the first details about the release have already been leaked.

Windows 7 features support for multiple video cards from different manufacturers running simultaneously and comes with a new Windows Media Center. With Windows 7 M1 already available, Microsoft is now planning to drop …