Microsoft is planning to release the Vista successor, Windows 7, in the second half of 2009, which now moves the release forward from the anticipated 2010 release.

According to this post on aPCMag.com there are three milestone builds planned for 2008, the first being M1 which has already shipped to key partners for code validation. It’s an English language build only, available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will be the last OS released as a 32-bit platform. From this version on all new operating systems will be 64-bit, which makes since the computer market is steadily evolving to 64-bit computing. The M2 release should happen in April or May, while M3 will ship some time in the third quarter of 2008.

Here are a couple of fake screenshots of Windows 7. Even though they are fake, I imagine the real thing won’t look too different than these visions:

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