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Microsoft has announced will offer the first look at the hood of the upcoming Windows 7 operating system to two conferences in October.  In the case of secondment to its new Windows 7 Blog Engineering, Engineering Windows lead Steve Sinofsky revealed that Microsoft intends to offer under the hood first peeks of the upcoming Windows operating system 7 two conferences at the beginning of this October, starting from the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) On 27 October and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) next week.[digitaltrends]

This is obvious, given what’s going in Taipei at the moment. Nevertheless, Microsoft just went with her official plans to extend the “Windows” category for them (and Intel) defined as “nettop” devices. So in addition to “Netbooks”, “ultralow cost PC (ULCPCs),” and all those other mini-notebooks, originally designed for developing markets, Microsoft has officially extended the life of Windows XP for ultralow cost desktop PCs, as ASUS “EEO Box and MSI in the Wind PC. Although Microsoft did not explicitly say that in XP carefully formulate a press release, we all know what they say. Microsoft argues that working with more than 20 OEMs - including HP, Dell, ASUS, Acer , Lenovo, and more - to help deliver Windows nettop-based devices. And here you thought Linux dreamers this will be a cake-walk. [Via]