Microsoft Corp. on Saturday restarted its rollout of the Windows 7 beta, 24 hours after it aborted the launch because heavy demand had stalled its servers. As of noon PST, the company said that 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 ...

Microsoft Thursday extended the deadline for downloading the public beta of Windows 7 by more than two weeks, citing continued interest in the preview. Microsoft Thursday extended the deadline for ...

Acknowledging that its release of Windows 7 public beta "was not ideal" in light of "enormous" demand, Microsoft suspends the software's 2.5 million download limit for a couple of weeks. Steven Musil ...

Microsoft has extended the general availability of the https://www.pcworld.com/video/id,938-page,1-bid,0/video.html?tk=rel_newsuntil February 10 due to the software ...

Microsoft has shut off the Windows 7 beta spigot, but will allow users who have started the download process to wrap it up by Thursday. As promised more than two weeks ago, Microsoft blocked new ...

Click on image for full-sized view. The announcement was made late Friday afternoon in a posting at the official Windows 7 Blog. (click on image for full-sized view of Microsoft’s message to ...

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So let it be written, so let it be done. During Steve Ballmer's decidedly humdrum keynote yesterday evening, the Microsoft CEO made several announcements that were less than surprising. In fact, the ...

Fewer than 2.5 million copies of the beta have been downloaded since Microsoft launched the Windows 7 preview Jan. 10 Microsoft Thursday extended the deadline for downloading the public beta of ...

Microsoft made the Windows 7 beta available for public download Saturday after its servers were overwhelmed by users trying to download the operating system. On its site, Microsoft posted a note ...

New downloads will be blocked today, but users who have started the download process have until Thursday to finish it Microsoft has shut off the Windows 7 beta spigot, but will allow users who have ...