Windows 7 News: Software, Virus Protection

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 already have Windows Software Assurance and want to upgrade their existing business PCs to Windows 7. There are two editions …

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 until supplies last here in the US and other select markets. In the US, the price for …

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 kicks off tomorrow, June 26th! Anyone who buys a PC from a participating OEM or retailer with Windows …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 build string is 7055.winmain.090303-2130 which clearly states that the build was compile on 3rd March just 2 days before the compilation of …

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 Windows Vista Business SKU and is the targeted version at small and lower mid-market businesses. Like it predecessor Windows 7 Home …

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 changed 4. Calculator icon changed 5. Sticky Notes icon changed …

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 at 18:45 hours.This build is currently available to few of the Microsoft internal testers and  TAP partners.
The confirmation post regarding build 7048 hints that this …