Microsoft’s plans for Windows 7 remain ambitious, with 100% backward compatibility for Vista applications one of the features it hopes to have ready for public display in November.

In the latest post on the company’s Engineering Windows 7 blog , Windows 7 senior engineering manager Steven Sinofsky confirms that maintaining compatibility with Vista applications is high on the Windows 7 to-do list.

The blog also confirmed the widely held suspicion that many key Windows 7 technologies and features will be shown off at WinHEC, Microsoft’s annual hardware engineering conference, which is being held in Los Angeles in November.

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