Might some of these changes make it into Windows 7? I doubt it, but here’s to hoping.

Details about how Microsoft’s Live services will tie in with Windows 7.

Hmm, can you leapfrog an OS that is 1.5 years old? Vista may not be winning hearts, but it’s here. Windows 7 will simply be the next version in line, created with Vista’s short-comings in mind.

Pillar five refers to ?Engineered for Ease of Ownership? and covers Data Recovery, Diagnostics and Health, Less Fear of New Applications, Migration, Business Productivity and Security, Devices will ‘just work!’, and A Quick and Clean OOBE.

Pillar four refers to ?optimized for entertainment? and covers HiFi Grapics, Home Media Streaming, Optimized Playback, TV on Windows, and Sound.

Good luck with that plan. Buying new computers a year from now with XP drivers could be a challenge.

Back to 2010, 2009 was fun while it lasted.

Speculation about what Windows 7 will and won’t be…

Long Zheng comments on ‘the five pillars’ series being done at AeroXP.org.

Pillar three deals with ‘Personalized Computing for Everyone’, and includes ‘this desktop is made for me!’, culturalization improvements, access, secure roaming, and home network management.

Two hints suggest Windows 7 may be out earlier than was previously suggested. I can’t see how that could be possible without seeing a beta release very soon.

Though Windows 7 is currently being planned, Microsoft is also planning for how humans will interact with computers in 2020.

Ed shows why MinWin might not be the base of Windows 7, as many speculate it may be.