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After the critical pounding Windows Vista has received since its release – although Microsoft insist it’s been successful – there’s a lot resting on Windows 7, the next OS from Microsoft. And yesterday it offered a first peek at the system at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.

As well as saying it will offer a more personalized experience, Microsoft senior vice-president Steven Sinofsky described it as an "exciting new version of Windows."

So what does it do?

It is, according to Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie, “Windows for the cloud.” Yesterday at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles he gave the first showing of the company’s cloud computing service, named Windows Azure, which is Microsoft’s grand entrance into the cloud computing business, and due to be released in conjunction with the next OS, Windows 7.

Although Microsoft might have a virtual stranglehold on PC operating systems, it’s far behind in the cloud computing stakes. Amazon is already there, and Google with its Google Docs, is far ahead, leading Sam Shillace, who runs Google Docs, to tell the BBC:  Read more...