Bill Veghte, Microsoft’s senior vice president of Online Services & Windows Business Group, has written a letter addressed to “Windows Customers” in which he explains his company’s plans around the operating system that powers “more than 1 billion personal computers around the world.” In the letter, he talks about Windows XP, Windows Vista, and the upcoming Windows 7. Most of what he says has already been announced, has been gathered from various sources, or has been speculated based on hints from Microsoft employees.
Microsoft will ship Windows 7 sometime in or near Jan. 2010, according to a letter company senior vice president Bill Veghte sent to Microsoft customers Tuesday. The letter, sent to enterprise and business customers, will eventually be publicly posted on Microsoft’s Web site.
Microsoft yesterday sent customers a letter reaffirming its plans to kill off Windows XP sales at the end of June and that system builders can continue to ship machines loaded with the OS until early 2009. That widely-known caveat has been viewed by many as a considerable insurance policy for the software giant, which has failed to achieve sparkling sales of Vista, its upto date operating system.



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