Some of you may have heard about Windows 7 (code named, Vienna), its the next Windows operating system to follow after Vista. Today, Bill Gates has announced that Windows 7 may be shipping as early as 2009. Many Windows users may see this as great news, since Vista is in a bad state. However, I believe Microsoft needs to fix problems which they are currently having with Vista. Many users have bought Vista and are having issues. It would be far better if Microsoft released more service packs first before releasing a new version of Windows, instead they are covering up their mistakes with Vista. Vista has great features and still could be a great operating system if they fixed the issues first.

I believe its far too early to be releasing a new version of Windows very soon after they have released Vista, but Microsoft have done it in the past with Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP. But all those were great stable operating systems, Vista is currently not stable. Another problem Microsoft could end up with, is that they would be supporting four operating systems. Windows 2000, XP and Vista will still all be supported by Microsoft, when Windows 7 is out. It would be far better if Microsoft only supported two operating systems, not four. When Windows Vista came out, they should have stopped support of Windows 2000.

If I was Microsoft, I would first end support of Windows 2000. I would put Windows 7 on hold and make Windows Vista a stable operating system. Once Vista is stable, then I would release Windows 7.

What do you think, should Windows 7 be released in 2009?