get.Those who are enjoying the Windows 7 beta will have to stick with it until the final version ships, as the public beta released in early January will be the first and last of the public betas for the OS.That it’s necessarily bad news, however, as the...

the Windows 7 public beta in January and only slightly modified them for the release of yesterday’s Release Candidate. The system requirements for the beta at the time called for: 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor1 GB of system memory16 GB of available disk...

long ago the company decided to remove the initial limit on the public beta until January 24, meaning that up until today, users could access the beta even if the download number exceeded the 2.5 million unit limit. So here we are a couple days later and Microsoft...

of invited participants - as they always have been - rather than to the general public. As a result, they argued, what Microsoft is now calling the "Beta 2 phase" of Vista builds is not really the same as a general public beta, such as Vista Beta 1. Yesterday,...

250 million Yahoo users are about to effected by the free-for-all OpenID standard, allowing them to log into other complying websites with their Yahoo ID. The service will be available in a public beta form beginning January 30. "OpenID is an open technology...

application compatibility. There is one immediately noticeable change in the latest build, and that’s a new wallpaper that replaces the betta fish that we’ve seen ever since the first public beta build 7000 from January. What you see below could be the...

that many of you want to check out the Windows 7 Beta and, as a result, we have decided remove the initial 2.5 million limit on the public beta for the next two weeks (thru January 24th). During that time you will have access to the beta even if the download...