Bill Gates speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank said that we can expect Windows 7 “sometime in the next year”.Bill Gates said”Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version.”

This let to a widespread confusion and people thinking if Microsoft is really leaving Vista behind by speeding up the release of Windows 7. Microsoft spokesperson yesterday said that Mr. Bill Gates was talking about alpha or beta versions, as it usually happens, and not the final product.