Windows 7 News: Software, Virus Protection

Windows XP mode is now available on Technet and MSDN.Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 makes it easy to install and run many of your Windows XP productivity applications directly from a Windows 7-based PC. It utilizes virtualization technology such as Windows Virtual PC to provide a Virtual Windows XP environment for Windows 7. Windows XP Mode provides a 32-bit Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (SP3) environment pre-loaded on a virtual hard disk.

Here are the instructions posted on technet
Note:
- You can use Windows Virtual PC to run Windows …

Finally after long wait Windows 7 RC and Windows Server 2008 R2 RC is now available for download on TechNet and MSDN.

The following downloads are available

Windows 7 Ultimate RC (x86) – DVD (English)
Windows 7 Ultimate RC (x64) – DVD (English)
Windows 7 RC Language Pack (x86) – DVD (English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish)
Windows 7 RC Language Pack (x64) – DVD (English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish)
Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7 RC and Windows Server 2008 R2 RC (x86/x64/ia64) – DVD (English) …

Finally it has been confirmed that Windows 7 would be released in the holiday season this year.Here is what the Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Veghte said “A holiday release is accomplishable,” which clearly states that Windows 7 would be available this year during the holiday season.
Further adding to it Paul Thurrott said that his expectation is that Microsoft will finalize Windows in late July or August and begin selling it to customers in September.

The release notes for Windows Virtual PC Beta has been available and can be downloaded here
Here is what the download page reads
Windows Virtual PC (Beta) is the latest Microsoft virtualization technology that allows you to run many productivity applications on a virtual Windows environment, with a single click, directly from a Windows 7-based PC. For more information about Windows Virtual PC, please visit the Windows Virtual PC website. The Release notes provide important information you should know prior to installing and using Windows Virtual PC, including known issues. You should …

According to the Microsoft Press site beta version of  Windows XP Mode will be made available on April 30.Windows XP mode allows users of Windows 7 Professional and above to launch many older Windows XP productivity applications directly from their Windows 7 desktop. The Windows XP Mode stand-alone feature is specifically designed to help small businesses that are using Windows XP applications move to Windows 7. For larger businesses, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) MED-V 2.0 builds on top of Windows Virtual PC and provides centralized management of Windows XP …

Talking About Windows is a new website that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Windows 7 from the Microsoft engineers who helped build product as well as showcasing real IT Professionals talking candidly about their implementations and experiences in considering a more modern OS. This is done through a series of videos hosted within the Talking About Windows Website.

Through Talking About Windows, IT Professionals can listen as our engineers discuss why certain product decisions and feature trade-offs were made in Windows 7 from the likes of Mark …

Windows XP Mode is specifically designed to help small businesses move to Windows 7. Windows XP Mode provides you with the flexibility to run many older productivity applications on a Windows 7 based PC.
All you need to do is to install suitable applications directly in Windows XP Mode which is a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC. The applications will be published to the Windows 7 desktop and then you can run them directly from Windows 7.
Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC are best experienced on …

Certainly after lot’s of leaks and rumours finally the Windows Team Blog has announced the dates for the release of Windows 7 RC.The RC version would be available to  download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers on 30th April and would be available to public  on May 5th.
Here is what the blog reads-
There certainly has been a lot of discussion about Windows 7 in the last few weeks. A lot of folks want to know when they can get their hands on the official RC, when we are going to RTM, …

It has been confirmed that Windows 7 RC build 7100 has been leaked and is available for download on various torrent sites.Here are the details of the build
Windows 7 RC build 7100 x86
MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.7.ULTIMATE.X86.RC1.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD.ISO-MSFT BUILD: 7100.0.090421-1700 7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRC1CULFRER_EN_DVD.iso SIZE: 2530975744 bytes CRC: E8A1C394 MD5: 8867C13330F56A93944BCD46DCD73590 SHA1: 7D1F486CA569EFFFFB719CFB48355BB7BF499712
Windows 7 RC build 7100 x64
MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.7.ULTIMATE.X64.RC1.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD.ISO-MSFT BUILD: 7100.0.090421-1700 7100.0.090421-1700_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRC1CULXFRER_EN_DVD.iso SIZE: 3,270,828,032 bytes …

According to various sources,Windows 7 build 7100 has been leaked and is available for download on various torrent sites.The ISO file name for the x86 build is 7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRC1CULFRER_EN_DVD.iso . The size of the build is 2.58 GB and the INFO hash is a646356c13d5cc3d7f8388cc5705fe0a4df14c40.
Though the torrent for x64 build has been available but still their is no confirmation whether both the torrents are real or fake.We would be keep you updated about the same.
Update:The torrents available till yet has been confirmed fake,so don’t download them