We announced a few days ago that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer will make an appearance at the D6 Conference demonstrating the new user interface of Windows 7.

Previous versions of Windows provided backwards compatibility with older versions of windows, making it easy for users to upgrades as their favorite programs would still work.
However, with Windows 7 Microsoft are approaching backwards compatibility differently, and Windows 7 will not be binary compatible with older versions. This won’t mean that older programs won’t run, [...]

Bill Gates revealed some exciting new information about the upcoming next Microsoft operating system codenamed Windows 7. He spoke at the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo and had the following to say about Windows 7.
We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about [...]

To be honest, updating those small applications like the calculator, notepad or the control panel would not be very high on my priority list for a new Windows operating system. Microsoft apparently thought otherwise and managed to squeeze in some major changes to programs like the Windows Calculator.

Mouse and keyboard are used by most users to work with their computer and software. Microsoft tried to make speech recognition more appealing in Windows Vista but failed miserably. No one is speaking about this feature anymore in Vista and everything is back to where it was in Windows 3.11 when it comes to input technologies.