Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group talked with CNET about the upcoming Windows 7. Steven said that the OS is coming in January 2010 and there will be no change in Driver model and kernel of the OS. The OS kernel will build on the success and strength of Windows Server 2008, which is an evolution of the kernel in Windows Vista. Basically meaning that Windows 7 will have Windows Vista’s kernel. The Windows 7 will improve memory management, networking, process management and security, while maintaining compatibility with present set of applications. The OS will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. According to Sinofsky, Windows Vista established a very solid foundation, multiyear foundation, particularly on subsystems like graphics, audio and storage, Windows 7—will continue to build on that foundation as well. So Windows 7 will not get new file-system or kernel or driver models. Making it a face-lifting operation on Windows Vista, which was actually a face-lifting operation done on Windows XP. Either Microsoft is not talking, as they have learned their lesson from Vista’s mess or we will get Windows Vista 2.0 in January 2010.