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 ...

Windows 7 is very, very good and without a doubt the best beta version of a Microsoft OS I’ve ever tested — and I’ve been working with beta releases of Windows since Windows 95. Dare I say it?

The Simple Help weblog runs through installing Windows 7 on your Mac using Parallels, so you can experience the hype—from the safety of an easily deletable virtual machine.

Rumors of July upgrade availablility are one thing, but the official public release of the Windows 7 beta is big, big stuff.

• Improved Windows Logo + # keyboard shortcut Pressing Windows Logo + # (where # corresponds to an item’s order in the taskbar) in the beta would only launch the program in Windows 7.

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. … ...

How serious is Microsoft about new Windows 10 features? Serious enough to reopen beta testing Airline avoids CrowdStrike chaos because its systems run on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 ...

Microsoft has apparently decided that it has enough server capacity and has made the code available for the Windows 7 beta. I don't see a posting on the Windows 7 blog, but when I went to the ...

Microsoft has made its first beta version of Windows 7 available, but if you wanted to test out upgrades from Windows XP to the new OS, you're out of luck -- for now.

The Windows 7 public beta is reportedly "feature complete" and will expire on Aug. 1, 2009. Microsoft says Windows 7 is a leaner, stripped-down OS that will require as little as 1GB of memory.