Windows 7 release this year

Microsoft confirmed that it is planning to release Windows 7 this year, in time for the holiday shopping season.

At the event, Microsoft is also announcing it plans to wrap up work on an update to its server operating system (Windows Server 2008 R2) at the same time it finishes Windows 7 on the desktop side. Microsoft issued a release candidate for the server operating system last month, alongside the near-final version of Windows 7.