Windows 7 Home Basic Edition

Windows 7 Home Basic Edition is targeted at emerging markets. In fact, it will not be available outside of emerging markets.
If you’re looking to buy a flavour of windows 7 for your home PC, I’d strongly recommend you to go with the Home Premium Edition or the Ultimate Edition.
Home Basic has some features that [...]

Windows 7 Home Premium Edition

Microsoft expects Windows 7 Home Premium to serve the majority of home consumers – it is the recommended choice for consumers.
Home Premium will have the richest set of features for home consumers including –

Multi Touch
Aero Glass
Windows Media Center + all the new changes.
Multi Touch and Handwriting Recognition.

These will not be [...]

Windows 7 Starter Edition + Netbooks

Basic Windows 7 Starter Edition  information
Here’s what Mike Ybarra, GM at Microsoft had to say about Windows 7 Starter Edition –
We’ll also continue to offer Windows Starter edition, which will only be offered pre-installed by an OEM. Windows Starter edition will now be available worldwide. This edition is available only in the OEM [...]

Windows 7 Beta Key now available

Microsoft now has the download working and more importantly the Windows 7 Beta keys available. Check out the Windows 7 Beta Key page.
You have to login to passport first, and then use the link above to navigate – you’ll have to click on the download link. That then takes you to a login page and [...]

Windows 7 Beta Download Options

Jan 9th Update – These are the direct download links from download.microsoft.com ( courtesy neowin ) -
Download: Windows 7 x86 (32bit) and x64 (64 bit). These were working at 2:10 pm. Don’t know where to get the keys from. Microsoft was overwhelmed by traffic and delayed downloads. These links still work though.
Just jump to the [...]

Windows 7 Beta Release Jan 9th worldwide

When it releases, you can get the Windows 7 Beta at this link. There have been rumors that the Windows 7 Beta will release early January 2009, and the biggest confirmation of that was a member at neowin finding a link to the Beta on the official Windows 7 page. The link didn’t work – however, [...]

Windows 7 Themes for XP, Vista

Edit: I’ll warn you beforehand that applying these themes requires some amount of changes – you have to download a program like WindowGlazz or UXTheme that allows you to change themes easily. These programs are not endorsed by Microsoft, and there is no guarantee of whether or not they install undesired programs along with their [...]