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You can download the beta software at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

What Microsoft are saying about it's new OS:

• It's faster and easier to do the things you do every day through simplified navigation, easier connections to networks and devices you are using, and enabling better online experiences.
• Your PC works the way you want it to with faster boot-up and shut-down, better personalization, and more sensible tools for managing your PC.
• There are more intuitive ways to interact with your PC and easy ways to share media across PCs in the same house.

• BitLocker To Go - effortlessly encrypt any external USB drive by right-clicking on the drive's icon and entering a secure password.
• Drag and snap windows (one of our favourites) - easily display documents side-by-side without having to mess around manually resizing the windows - instead the windows simply snap to fit.
• UAC Silencer - everyones favourite Vista "feature" can now be fine tuned so that you are only notified of the things that you want.
• HomeGroup - now it is easier than ever to share documents, music, photos and printers in your home network. New Windows 7 machines are automatically enrolled into your HomeGroup (password required) and shared resources can be accessed as if they were stored locally.
• Easier networking - easily connect to Wi-Fi networks with one click, rather than having to go into View Available Networks like previous released.

We will post some screen shots of the OS in action on our blog over the next couple of weeks.

One thing that MS do boast, is that the existing Vista codebase has been finely tuned to improve performance. From our tests. this certainly does seem to be the case (especially as the VM we were running it on only had a measely 512mb system memory). 

It is expected that more features will be added to the OS through it's development. Although many of the features are already included in Vista, perhaps Windows 7 will be what finally encourages the many businesses and individuals still running XP, to upgrade.

There are a couple of questions that we still have for the guys at MS:

1. With Microsoft quite openly admitting that Windows Vista was not the success they had hoped for, what about all those people who did upgrade? When Windows 7 is released, hailed as the new and better Vista, should existing Vista users be expected to pay for the upgrade?
2. With Microsoft recently dropping LiveCare - when will we see a Windows operating system that has everything you need out the box. Even after installing Windows 7 we were still advised that we had no antivirus protection. Why is this? There is a built in firewall, anti malware/spyware software (defender), but still no AV. Why not have protection built in using software developed by the same people who built the operating system, rather than having to install some clunky third party software that will be marketed as being "Windows 7 Compatible".

Expect to see some more Windows 7 related articles over the next few weeks.

More more information visit the official Windows 7 Website.

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