Bill Veghte a Senior Vice President of Microsoft has written and released a document explaining the Windows roadmap.

It doesn’t reveal anything that new but would be a good read for a small business owner trying to make sense of what is happening with Windows.

The documents covers:-

•The Future of Windows XP
•Important Progress with Windows Vista
•Compatibility
•Quality and performance improvements to Windows Vista with Service Pack 1
•Beyond Windows Vista

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/letter.mspx

There is a lot of noise, sorry news about Windows 7 the successor to Windows Vista (Link).

Bill and Steve are giving us a nice chat about it at the All things Digital Conference (Link)

However the fact of the matter is the next Version of Windows is not due until the 2010.

Microsoft wants us to focus on the past (”look how far we have come”) bypass the elephant in the room (Vista) and now want us to look to a future in which Windows 7 will make it all better again.

I think I can be a more useful talking about technology and products that actually exist, so that’s it on Windows 7 for while.