XP, Vista, and Windows 7

The Death of XP

OSnews Microsoft Windows XP Dies June 30, As Planned.

Downloadsquad reports that Microsoft will support Windows XP until 2010 -- on low power laptops only. Slashdot has a similar story Microsoft Extends XP For Low-Cost Laptops

Vista

Rumors about Vista not being all that it was to be shouldn't make a story like this too much of a surprise, since the Product Manager is the one that catches the flak when things go wrong....
Microsoft's Vista Blogger Quits. Why "Vista" Nick White Left Microsoft.

Windows 7

Is it the future? Reports of early versions have been floating about the web for a few months.

How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7 from Slashdot.

OSNews links to Gates: Microsoft Windows 7 Sometime Next Year

Dvorak Uncensored suggests Let’s go straight from XP to 7

Bill Gates says he expects the new version of Windows operating software, code-named Windows 7, to be released “sometime in the next year or so.

Looks like the time between major OS releases is going to shorten substantially!