Buried in the letter which Bill Veghte, senior vice president of the Online Services & Windows Business group sent to Windows customers earlier this week, which re-affirmed that XP is pretty much gone after June 30th (with a few exceptions, more later), was a note that indicated that customers wanted a “more regular, predictable Windows release schedule.” Based on that, he said the following:Some of you may have heard about “Windows 7”, which is the working name for the next release of Microsoft Windows.