Microsoft has released a second beta of the Windows 7 Software Logo Toolkit (build 1.0.7112.100) for download. Beta 2 adds a graphical user interface that makes the toolkit easier to use.

Microsoft has released a beta of the Windows 7 Software Logo Toolkit (1.0.7112.36) for download. Companies can use the toolkit to verify an application's compliance against the requirements of the ...

Microsoft's Engineering Windows 7 weblog highlights the changes users can expect between Windows 7 Beta and the hotly anticipated Windows 7 Release Candidate. Many are "under the hood," but you ...

I've been living with Windows 7 for some time now. ... (Our newsroom USB modem didn't work with the beta of Windows 7.) With the release candidate, I was finally able to take the complete plunge.

As regular readers know, I am now a Mac user. But I’m still a Windows user, too. Both are good operating systems, with their respective pros and cons. I move easily between the two. Lately ...

Reader Digerati offers detailed instructions for getting your Windows 7 beta product key which worked for me (when last night's did not). Here's what you do. Tip: You can use the 64-bit during a ...

So let it be written, so let it be done. During Steve Ballmer’s decidedly humdrum keynote yesterday evening, the Microsoft CEO made several announcements that … ...

The first official beta of Microsoft’s knight in shining GUI will soon be issued but reviews are already beginning to pop up around the internet. … ...

Microsoft sent to a select group of testers on December 16 invitations to participate in Windows 7 Beta 1. Individuals who received the invites are considered "tech beta testers." Here is part of ...

The final RTM version of Windows 7 would be released about a year later, and this old beta build includes some of the changes customers experienced with the OS on their 2009 PC.

In the Windows 7 beta it was impossible to separate desktop icons from gadgets under the View setting available by right-clicking on the desktop. Now there is the option to hide just your gadgets ...

Attempts, however, to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 beta 1 are not allowed. It's not clear whether Microsoft will allow those upgrades upon general availability of Windows 7 later this year.