Microsoft's upcoming operating system Windows 7 might make the rounds for beta testing come December. Microsoft has two tech conferences -- Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in late October or Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) early November. Mary Jo Foley who writes about Microsoft at ZDNet Blogs, adds that a selected small group of beta testers who swore to keep it secret have got their hands on two Milestone Windows 7 builds along with numerous updates.
Windows 7 will have new cool features like an OS X-like dock, multi-touch feature for maps, paint and music applications, and a comprehensive mapping application to sync with Microsoft Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth.
As per a post by Christina Storm on Windows 7 feedback program, the program manager on the Windows Customer Engineering feature team:
"When we release the Windows 7 beta, we will also be collecting feedback from this (Windows Feedback) panel and asking for participation from a set of Windows 7 beta users. Our current plans call for signing up for the beta to happen in the standard Microsoft manner on http://connect.microsoft.com Stay tuned!"
Whether the beta(s) would be available to the public remains a mystery. Bill Gates has already mentioned that next Windows will be released in late 2009 or so. If Microsoft releases the first Windows 7 Beta during Christmas, then we can expect Windows 7 to ship in fourth quarter of 2009, or early 2010, the latest.
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