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What will this mean for Vista?

Published: 7 April 2008 08:43 BST

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday he expects the latest Windows operating system, code-named Windows 7, to be released "sometime in the next year or so".

The software giant has been aiming to issue more regular updates of the operating system software that powers the majority of the world's PCs. Nevertheless, Gates' comments suggest a successor to Vista might be released sooner than was generally expected.
Microsoft has said it expects to release a new version of Windows approximately three years after the introduction of Vista in January 2007.

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