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今天，华尔街日报著名专栏作者 Walt Mossberg 召集名为 AllThingsDigital D6 的座谈活动，Bill Gates 与 Steve Ballmer 皆到场，首次正式的展示了开发中的 Windows 7 的一些特性。同时，CNET 也就 Windows 7 详细的采访了微软的 Steven Sinofsky，其中包含了一些 Windows 7 的进一步消息：

1. Windows 7 将在 2010 年的某个时候发。

“The timing of it depends a lot on what we wanted to achieve, and you’ve certainly heard us, and we’ve been very clear, and will continue to say that the next release of Windows, Windows 7, is about three years after the general availability of Windows Vista, and we’re committed to that, and we’ve signed up publicly to do that.“

2. Windows 7 并没有开发全新的内核，而是基于 Windows Server 2008，可以说是 Vista 的改进版本。

“We’re very clear that drivers and software that work on Windows Vista are going to work really well on Windows 7; in fact, they’ll work the same. We’re going to not introduce additional compatibilities, particularly in the driver model. Windows Vista was about improving those things. We are going to build on the success and the strength of the Windows Server 2008 kernel, and that has all of this work that you’ve been talking about. The key there is that the kernel in Windows Server 08 is an evolution of the kernel in Windows Vista, and then Windows 7 will be a further evolution of that kernel as well.“

3. 客户端版本的 Windows 7 将依然同时包含 32 和 64 位两种版本，而服务器版本在命名上将会被冠以”Windows Server 7″。

“Finally, we are going to make sure that the release is available both in 32 bit and 64 bit, which is an additional help for maintaining compatibility, particularly with device drivers. As the 64-bit ecosystem catches up, we expect more and more people, particularly enthusiasts, to be running 64 bit.“

而在 AllThingsDigital D6 的座谈上，Gates 等演示的 Windows 7 中包含了一些类似于 iPhone 的多点触摸技术，操作方式极为相似，微软命名为 N-trig DuoSense 技术。以下是部分 Windows 7 界面的截图：