Last month we made Windows 7 available to customers with Software Assurance and to MSDN and TechNet Subscribers. Today I am happy to announce two more ways for businesses to get Windows 7 for their deployment and evaluation. Volume License Availability, at a Discount Starting today, businesses can order upgrades to Windows 7 from a Microsoft Volume License Reseller. This option is for businesses that don’t...

With Windows Anytime Upgrade (or WAU), we make it super easy and convenient for the small number of customers who’s PC needs evolve to need a higher edition of Windows 7. Windows 7 Starter to Windows 7 Home Premium: $79.99 Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional: $89.99 Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate: $139.99* The Windows 7 Family Pack will be available starting on October 22nd...

Finally today,Microsoft has released the prices for Windows 7.Windows Team Blog has posted the full information regarding prices and other details. Here is what the team blog reads In fact, we know many people need that new PC sooner – for back to school specifically. And we have the answer for people who need a new PC now but still want to get Windows 7 and that’s the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program, which...

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...

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...

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...

As Microsoft makes it’s path towards Windows 7 RC,their has been many interim builds compiled by Microsoft,out of which barely a couple of builds were leaked on the net,and screenshots were available of some of the builds.In one of the screenshots by Will Volker, a Microsoft evangelist who installed Windows 7  on an ASUS 1000HE netbook it’s being clearly stated that the build being 7055 and the complete...

Jeff Alexander has posted the complete SKU Lineup for Windows 7.As it has been known that Windows 7 would be released in six flavours Starter Home Basic Home Premium Professional Enterprise Ultimate This slide gives you a quick overview of all the versions of Windows 7. The primary 2 editions are  Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional.  Windows 7 Professional replaces the...

Finally after the release of Windows 7 build 7048 64 bit leak the 32 bit Windows 7 build 7048 has been leaked on torrent sites.The size of the torrent is 2.61 GB and the MD5 hash is 85BC597D 6975E188 F01B1DC0 11EC9639 The changes in this version of Windows 7 are- 1.“Send Feedback” on title bar removed 2.“Windows 7 Business” now reads “Windows 7 Professional” in the installation 3. Paint icon...

We have been posting continuously about windows 7 build 7048 since past two days regarding some of it screenshots and then confirming it that it actually exist,now the german site winfuture.de has posted good number of screenshots showing the differences in the previous version and in build 7048. As reported earlier the build string is 7048.0.winmain.090219-1845 stating that it was compiled on 19th feb 2009...