Windows 7 is finally under open discussion, with the first glimpse of its capabilities to be unveiled in October 2008. Microsoft intends to provide detailed engineering information about Windows 7 during two technical conferences, the Professional Developers Conference and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. Based on Windows Vista, the new operating system is scheduled for release in January 2010.

So far, the details revealed are scarce and only informs us that they’ll be using Vista components as the foundation, include a touch interface and have some gesture-recognition capabilities for task completion purposes. For example, pinching the screen could be configured to make any open documents close or manipulate images. No exact details or in-depth information has leaked about the new Windows 7 yet. Industry experts believe Microsoft will release more virtualization technologies and cross-machine data and program accessibility via this new release.