At Tech•Ed North America 2009 today, Bill Veghte announced that Windows 7 is on track to be available for the “holiday season”.

Possibly bigger news is that Tech•Ed attendees will get the first opportunity to participate in the invitation-only Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview program from July 2009. Check out http://www.office2010themovie.com/ and if you’re interested, join the waitlist for the Tech Preview. More info on the Office 2010 blog

In other news, we announced SQL Server 2008 R2 (formerly SQL Server code-named “Kilimanjaro”) will be available in the second half of 2009 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate (RC) is available today with the final product releasing to market in the same timeframe as Windows 7.

On a related note, I like the progress our PressPass team is making as I’m sat watching the keynote live and can embed the video, see related tweets and more.