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New York - On January 31, Microsoft announced that it will not be releasing a Beta 2 for Windows 7. Instead, the company plans to release only one public beta (called Windows 7 Build 2000). Microsoft is not giving a timeframe for a release of Windows 7. It is only promising to release the next version of Windows by the end of January next year, on the 2nd year anniversary of its release of Windows Vista. However, based on speculations from Microsoft employees, version ... Read More

New York - Microsoft has unveiled a public beta version of its new Windows 7 operating system. It was made available for public download on Friday January 9, 2009 at 12:00 noon PST. Microsoft’s servers were overwhelmed Friday morning with people anxious to download the new system, even though it had not yet been made available. Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer said that the company would only provide 2.5 million activation keys for the beta software download. However, everyone can still download and install ... Read More

New York - Little by little we are starting to get good news about the development of Windows 7, the new operating system from Microsoft which is expected to hit the market by the end of 2009 or beginning of 2010. It seems that the software giant has managed to reduce the time it takes to boot the system by 20% ... up to the same level as Vista's predecessor, XP. At the moment it is a beta (test), so it's likely that ... Read More