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Windows 7 hits milestone 3

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.

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