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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Update: Due to high demand, Microsoft pulls the download. Ladies and gents, start your (2.5 million) downloads. The official Windows 7 Beta is ready for download at Microsoft's TechNet site. It ...

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.

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. … ...

Give yourself plenty of time before Aug. 1 to get ready for the Windows 7 beta to stop working. (Microsoft is resolute on that expiration date, even though by clicking winver.exe in Windows 7, the ...

Microsoft’s Windows 7 Beta will start to spontaneously reboot every two hours beginning on Wednesday, the company has warned users. The move is part of Microsoft’s usual effort to push users ...

The main problem seems to be that Windows 7 is still in beta, so no virus protection software has been optimized for the OS yet. As always when installing beta software, you do so at your own risk.

— -- The software is best downloaded at this stage only by techies who have a spare PC to try it on. For-sale versions of Windows 7 aren't expected until late this year or early next ...