Mary-Jo Foley"s blog reports some of the new things in Microsoft"s internally released Windows 7 milestone.
The successor to Windows Vista is only about a year away and scheduled to go into beta next month. The ribbon UI from Office 2007 seems to have migrated into some of the Windows Vista applications. A few other observations include that Powershell is part of the build along with rewritten versions of MS Paint, Calculator, and Word Pad.
Read the whole thing here.