Following Bill Gates comments last week during a speech to the Inter-American Development Bank, that his company might ship the next version of windows, currently codenamed Windows 7 as soon as 2009, a Microsoft spokesman said Gates may have been referring to trial versions of Windows 7:

“As is standard with the release of a new product, we will be releasing early builds of Windows 7 prior to its general availability as a means to gain tester feedback,” the spokesman said.

The spokesman continued: “We’re not sharing additional information at this time”

Nothing new there then!

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