Last week Bill Gates spoke at the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo, Japan about the Windows PC platform and it's future.

Altough it was a very generic speech about Windows and it's current features, Gates' past and challenge that he faced when he and the team were making Windows, he also hinted about certain features in Windows 7 (the codename for the next desktop version of Windows):

 "We're hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I'm very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient, and have lots more connections up to the mobile phone, so those scenarios connect up well to make it a great platform for the best gaming that can be done, to connect up to the thing being done out on the Internet, so that, for example, if you have two personal computers, that your files automatically are synchronized between them, and so you don't have a lot of work to move that data back and forth."

As highlighted above, Windows 7 promises to be more sleeker then Vista. This is mostly due to the work on the MinWin kernel which Eric Traut talked about last October. It also hints at the file synchronization which will probably be Windows 7 'HomeGroup' which Long Zheng reported on earlier this year.

Complete speech transcript at Source.

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