RE: What we know about Windows Vienna / Windows 7
Yeah, the original post was made back in May of 2007, so things have changed. So long as Microsoft doesn't do to Windows 7 as they did to Windows Longhorn, Windows 7 will be a major release. Vista is officially a Major release, but there were a lot of things left out, such the new interface that was supposed to be in Windows 7, as well as the WinFS filesystem. Let's just hope that it ships with all the stuff that it's supposed to have.
As for IE8 being designed by the person that created the ribbon interface, that sounds good to me.