Microsoft finally confirms Windows 7 for 2010 launch

Engadget:

“It’s all a silly misunderstanding, we tell you. Microsoft has been holding fast to its “three years” development time frame for Windows 7 since forever,
the problem is that it’s never been clear when that three year period
started. Well wonder no longer, Microsoft has finally officially
confirmed that the three years started at Windows Vista’s general
availability release, which was January 30th, 2007. Obviously that
doesn’t mean will have Windows 7 on midnight of January 30th, 2010, but
it does mean we can look forward to sometime within that year for a
release. Microsoft plans to give an exact release date only once
Windows 7 “meets its quality bar for release.” Sounds like a good
metric to go by, if you ask us.”