It has been recently confirmed by Microsoft that the upcoming version of Windows will now officially be called as ‘Windows 7′.

This was revealed by Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President, Windows Product Management in a blog post at the Windows Vista Blog. For as far as we know, this is final deal and perhaps its the first time ever a Windows release has been officially named after its codename.

This is what Mike had to say.

…since we began development of the next version of the Windows client operating system we have been referring to it by a codename, “Windows 7.” But now is a good time to announce that we’ve decided to officially call the next version of Windows, “Windows 7″…

More details on Windows 7 will be revealed and discussed at PDC 2008, where supposedly Microsoft’s new Windows Cloud OS is to be announced too.

According to Mike, Microsoft selected ‘Windows 7′ as its official name because of of its simplicity and the fact that it is the seventh release of Windows.

Windows 7 will basically be ‘Vista on steroids’ or more simply a more evolved version of Windows Vista with new applications, refinements and technology. A pre-beta developer-only release is to be shared with the attendees of both PDC and WinHEC.