Martin upgraded Virtual PC 2007 to SP1, and gave the Windows 7 beta the 1024 MB of RAM it needs. Now the VM Additions install, but the sound drivers won't. It's still better than last week. As I ...

Microsoft has launched Windows 7 Beta to the world at large, putting a test version of its next-generation software into the hands of potentially tens of millions of people. That means work for ...

Late Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled the public beta for Windows 7, the follow-on and follow-up to Vista, which from all signs the company is trying to forget as fast as possible. CEO Steve Ballmer, in ...

The Windows 7 Release Candidate will have "quite a few changes" that reflect feedback Microsoft received during the beta, Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live ...

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday issued its first patch for the just-released Windows 7 beta, but it passed on plugging a hole in an important file-sharing protocol that it fixed in older versions of the ...

Microsoft made the Windows 7 beta available for public download Saturday, lifting the limit on the number of users who initially are allowed to beta test the software, after its servers were ...

— -- After weeks of speculation, it appears that the general public will soon be able to get its hands on the first beta of Microsoft's follow-up to Windows Vista. A message on the MSDN Developer ...

Microsoft Corp. patched the first critical vulnerability in Windows 7 Tuesday as it rolled out an update that fixes three flaws in the new operating system’s kernel. The MS09-006 update, which ...

This week's wrapup of the top tech news stories includes the Windows 7 public beta saga, Apple's final Macworld, 2009's rough economic start, and more Macworld Expo (sans Steve Jobs) and the ...