When will Windows “7″ Be Released?

According to two Microsoft executives, Chris Flores, a director with the Windows Client communications team, and Steve Sinofsky, the senior vice president who heads Windows development, both pegged the release of the Vista follow-on as early 2010.

“We’re happy to report that we’re still on track to ship approximately three years after the general availability of Windows Vista,” said Flores in an entry on a company blog.

“[We] will continue to say that the next release of Windows, Windows 7, is about three years after the general availability of Windows Vista,” Sinofsky told News.com that same morning.

Tuesday night, however, another company executive — the one who heads the org chart, in fact — said different. At The Wall Street Journal’s All …