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The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is still several months away, but there’s already buzz now that the next-gen operating system dubbed Windows 8 will be at the core of Microsoft’s CES 2012 keynote. According to company insiders, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be taking the stage at...

Microsoft's CES 2012 keynote has not only been narrowed down but may give the first publicly available copy of Windows 8, both official and unofficial sources said Wednesday. CEO Steve Ballmer was confirmed to be taking the stage on the evening of January 9, unusually at Las Vegas' The Venetian...

One of the points of disagreement that Paul O’Flaherty and I had in the days of the Daily Brief video podcast centered around when we might see a public beta of Windows 8. Paul believed that we wouldn’t see one … Continue reading Source: Yahoo! News

The Link Removed developers have released a public beta of CCleaner for Mac. Previously only available on Windows, CCleaner is a popular cleaning and maintenance tool that allows users to easily delete, for example, the temporary internet files, cookies and history from a variety of web...

The Windows 8 talk has really been heating up over the last week or so and today brings speculation about a possible release date for the OS. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft's long-term schedule for Windows 8 tablets was given support Thursday night with an apparent leak of the timetable. Sources backed the notion of a Windows 8 public beta being ready at the end of 2011 and a finished version of the OS nearly a year year, in time for the "back-to-school...

We knew good and well it was coming , and here it is. Microsoft has today introduced the Release Candidate (RC) of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to the public, and for those unaware of how these software rollouts "work," the RC release generally signals that a final...

Grab your MREs and prepare to spend four days playing two new maps and modes for the multiplayer version of Medal of Honor! Anyone can download and play. All that is required is an EA Account when you launch the game and to accept the beta agreement. Maps: - Shahikot Mountains A helicopter has...

I been playing this for about a week now, and it's coming along quite nicely from the look of it. The character creation is pretty decent, for the two factions currently available, lots of nice tweaks although I think its a bit of a cheek to charge game credits to change your avatar at a later...

Microsoft has released a Platform Update for Windows Vista as a Public Beta. This update installs a range of features in Vista which are available in Windows 7, including Ribbon and DirectX 11. The final version of this update will be available to all Vista owners via Windows Update late this year.

Hello! I hope you understand me because im from Austria and my Englisch is not the best. I have a problem with my Netgear WLAN Stick (WNDA 3100). Windows 7 RC couldn't find a driver for it and the Netgear Softweare crashes after a few seconds but the program was work very well with the Public...

When the public beta program first starts, a version is released that has been extensively tested and determined to be stable enough for the general public to start testing. This first version (In this case v. 7000) is used as the base code for all of the bug reporting and feedback until the...

Hi I have had windows 7 on my spare marchine for a bit, and its very nice. I currently have the public beta. I would now like to upgrade my main rig. I currently have Vista 64bit and want to update to W7 64bit, but which daily build its fastest and most stable in 64bit? I most play games...

Actually I'M now in a bit of a quandary Vista SP2 improves Vista by quite a lot (even though it itself is only in RC1 stage). Could be some interesting politics going on at Microsoft between Vista Development and W7 teams. -- Bit of competition always a good idea. Maybe Vist will be going...

Hi, new to the forums with a issue regarding my files back in XP. I'm dual booting the public beta Build 7000 (32 bit) with XP Media Center Edition (SP3, 32 bit). Each OS resides on a separate physical drive. AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe 4 GB RAM GeForce 7900GS AVG Free My...

Before I describe the problem, I should say that I successfully did a clean install of Windows 7 public beta on a new HDD on my PC. However, on the very same PC, I then decided to upgrade my existing Vista SP1 which is on another HDD. So while in Vista, I ran the very same install DVD that I...

Hello all, I am writing because this is this the first time I have ever encountered this error. I currently have the W7 Public Beta installed on a partition on my laptop. All was going fine until this morning when I got up and checked on a torrent i was downloading. To my surprise, windows had...

Windows 7 is now available as a public beta test. The installation will expire in August, 2009. Visit Link Removed to download the operating system. There are many discussions taking place on this public beta. For more information or questions, join the Windows 7 Forums and see this thread...

I have the Windows 7 public beta installed and I really am happy with it. No problems so far playing games and doing daily work on it. When the next beta is released and when the final version is available for sale will I be able to upgrade by installing the new one over my existing beta...

It's official, Steve Ballmer has just announced that you can find the Windows 7 Ultimate Beta (Build 7000) on the Microsoft website as of January 9th. No information on how to get 7 Ultimate beta keys have been released yet, I'll keep you posted. As for Technet and MSDN, they've got their...