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There has been a lot of talk about Microsoft’s next OS release - Windows 7. The company is said to have made a lot of major improvements to the entire Windows experience, and has been giving due attention to mobile broadband support by the OS.

Windows 7 will improve the way current operating systems handle mobile broadband connectivity. Not many details are available, but the company has revealed in its blog that it is collaborating with big players like Asus, T-Mobile, Fujitsu, Huawei, Siemens and Acer to develop the system.

Asus gave a practical demonstration of the new OS in the recently concluded Mobile World Congress at Barcelona. The PC manufacturer showed its Eee PC running on Windows 7, with a Huawei EM770 embedded module making it 3.5G enabled.

According to Microsoft, the new OS will launch sometime later this year but some delays can be expected given the current economic scenario and a slow uptake of Vista. Vista is still gaining ground and Microsoft is finding it hard to get it to replace Windows XP, especially for home broadband users. Unless Vista has reached the penetration level that Microsoft thinks it can acheive, the company is unlikely to come up with a new OS release.

Mobile broadband is an opportunity that no one wants to miss and clearly, Microsoft has bought into the idea in a big way. With rumours that Google could challenge Microsoft

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