Everyone who has downloaded a leaked build of Windows 7 will have noticed that the versions will have a time limit of 30 days and watermarks. The official testers have all received Windows 7 keys to activate the Windows 7 operating system for a longer period.
We are usually not reporting about tools from the cracker [...]

The Windows 7 News team wishes all of its visitors a wonderful New Years Eve and a successful productive 2009. The new year will be exciting as we will see the first official public beta release of Windows 7 and most likely the final release of the operating system. The new year will start with [...]

German computer magazine WinFuture published a few Windows 7 Beta screenshots on their website which show no apparent changes when compared to the previous (leaked) builds like build Windows 7 build 6956 which was the build used by Microsoft at the WinHEC 2009 conference in Beijing.
It is very likely that Microsoft did concentrate on stability [...]

A screenshot of Windows 7 build 7004 appeared on the Internet. It was uploaded by Scott Wylie, NZ Director of Developer & Platform Strategy. He mentioned that he installed this pre-beta release of Windows 7 and started playing around with it. Now this interesting tidbit could either mean that the planned beta release will have [...]

Microsoft send the first Windows 7 beta letters to selected testers. The full wording of the letter can be found below:
The Microsoft Windows® beta team would like to extend an invitation to you to participate in the Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 beta program planned for early 2009 as announced at the [...]