With the “official” release of Windows 7 RC to the MSDN and technet subscribers today along with the public release scheduled for May 5th, NVIDIA released beta GPU driver set 185.81 today.

By Simon Mackie The really good news is that Windows 7 will include “XP Mode”: a fully licensed, virtualized copy of Windows XP. XP Mode will be available as a download for users with Windows 7 Professional and up

An Acer executive may have breached Microsoft's cone of secrecy surrounding the launch of Windows 7 if a Thursday report in the UK-based gadget blog Pocket-Lint.com is to be believed. Bobby Watkins, country general manager for Acer UK, told Pocket-Lint Microsoft's Windows 7 test implies holiday launch BusinessWeekXP to still be available on netbooks after Windows 7's release ComputerworldAcer says Windows 7 to ship 23 Oct VNUNet.comSeattle Times?- BBC Newsall 505 news articles

As Windows 7 RC hits the net, Microsoft's top exec in charge of the new OS tells NBR that netbooks will be a crucial market – but to a degree, his company's netbook fate is now out of its hands. The Release Candidate version of Windows 7 went to Is Windows 7 launch set to reveal ARM processor support?

Windows 7 may be hitting store shelves sooner than you think. Microsoft's latest operating system will be ready to roll this October, some information published by a British tech site suggests

Windows 7 may be arriving on systems Oct. 23, according to an Acer exec that provided a fine slip up at a press conference in Europe just as Windows 7 RC 1 was overheating download servers. David Meyer has just phoned in a hot news tip moments ago from Any sufficiently advanced information is indistinguishable from noise ZDNet UKall 5 news articles

By Business Wire FullArmor, a leader in enterprise policy management, today announced that it will deploy Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) on laptops for Ethiopian teachers beginning in the summer of 2009 to lower costs and take advantage of advanced

The result of close collaboration with Microsoft Corp. in developing for Windows 7, PhotoShow Touch enables families to compose and share entertaining slideshows using simple finger gestures to directly manipulate objects on screen

by Larry Seltzer Of course, every time a major release like this comes out it gets leaked on to BitTorrent, the open peer-to-peer network, and that has happened with Windows 7 as well. But downloading and installing these copies of it is inadvisable if

I've been running Windows 7 on a selection of systems for over four months now, so I've had plenty of time to become acquainted with the OS. During that time I've written a lot about Microsoft's latest OS on this blog but there's one question that Windows 7: Last Chance Before Alpha Escapist MagazineIs Microsoft Windows 7 the Obama of the OS World?