Windows 7 News: Software, Virus Protection

To celebrate the new Windows 7 TechCenter,the french TechNet team is giving away 1000 DVD’s of the beta version of Windows 7.To get the DVD all you have to do is to sign up for the technet newsletter on this page and if you one of the first 1000 users who have subscribed for the newsletter,you would be getting Windows 7 Beta complete with a DVD from Microsoft.

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The Windows platform has a broad ecosystem of products and partners that supports the platform. Displaying the Windows logo on your product represents a relationship and a shared commitment to quality between Microsoft and your company. Customers trust that seeing the Windows brand on your product ensures that it meets compatibility standards and performs well on the Windows platform. The Windows 7 Software Logo program is made up of policies and requirements that help ensure logo’d applications are easy to install and reliable on PCs running …

Microsoft plans to use telecomunications companies as a channel to promote Windows 7 for netbooks.
Speaking to ZDNet UK at Microsoft’s Growth and Innovation Day in Brussels on Thursday, Neil Holloway, vice president for business strategy at Microsoft International, said the company was in talks with telecoms companies and other service providers to work out how netbooks running Windows 7 could be bundled with other hardware and services, in order to increase market reach.
"Microsoft is working with telcos as a specific channel," said Holloway. "The way that Carphone Warehouse bundles phones, …

NVIDIA today announced the immediate availability of new graphics drivers from www.nvidia.com for NVIDIA® GeForce® GPU owners running the new Windows 7 Beta. Today’s availability represents the start of regular NVIDIA driver updates for the forthcoming operating system from Microsoft. Windows 7 will be the first Windows operating system to fully integrate and take advantage of the GPU for both graphics and parallel computing.
“Since its release last month, the Windows 7 Beta has been eagerly tested by hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GeForce owners, who are excited about the many …

The Virtual basic 6 support page has been updated and it states that VB6  runtime is supported in Windows 7.Here is what the summary on the page reads
Since the initial release of this support statement, the Windows 7 operating system has been announced.  This document has been updated to clarify Microsoft’s support for VB6 on Windows 7.
VB6 runtime will ship and will be supported in Windows 7 for the lifetime of the OS.  Developers can think of the support story for Vista being the same as it is for Windows …

As far as the Windows 7 Beta goes now that we’re just over 30 days since the broad availability of the beta I wanted to explain a little about how the 30 day activation grace period works and the experience customers will have if they do not enter a product key and activate by the end of the grace period. As with Windows Vista and Windows XP the Windows 7 Beta includes a 30 day grace period for activation (generally copies that are pre-installed by major OEMs and copies distributed …

We wanted to let you know that an update was released earlier today that will improve Internet Explorer’s reliability for users running the Windows 7 Beta. The update is now available via Windows Update, and can also be downloaded via Microsoft Update.
In this post we’ll discuss how we used the information that we’re receiving from Windows 7 Beta customers to determine the reliability fixes to include in this update.
We use the term “reliability” to broadly encompass all types of stability problems including crashes, hangs, memory leaks, etc. When we measure …

David Lowe one of the Technical Marketing guy in Microsoft reported couple of hours before via tweet that the latest build for Windows 7 is Build 7047.

It was confirmed by Sinofsky earlier that Microsoft is working on Windows 7 Build 7046-
"recently we’ve seen people talk about ‘RC Builds’ and the like. First, all builds since the beta are RC builds since by definition that is the next milestone. But by far the most humorous element has been that the build numbers blogged about are higher than our current build. …

Install this update to resolve issues with non-compatible applications for Windows 7 Beta. For complete details of this update, see Knowledge Base Article KB967062. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows 7 Prerelease License Terms.
Knowledge Base Article KB967062
Download the update  for x32 based systems here
Download the update  for x64 based systems here

It shouldn’t surprise many testers that Microsoft has shrewdly closed the upgrade channel for users who will — probably sooner this year than later — be making the switch to Windows 7. Many who had chosen to steer clear of Windows Vista and hang on to Windows XP — by all rights, a decent operating system, at least for Service Pack 3 users — are pondering the nightmare scenario of having to upgrade to and validate (which usually means, pay for) both Vista and Windows 7, if it so happens …