In January, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes put together 23 real-world scenarios to see if the 32-bit operating system out of Windows 7 build 7000, Windows Vista SP1, or Windows XP SP3 would be the quickest to ...

Normally, I would frown upon testing beta software against final code that has been updated frequently, but the results this time around are very interesting. Instead of using benchmarking programs, ...

VMware says that, like its rival Parallels, it has virtualization software that can help ease the transition from Windows XP to Windows 7. While its approach is less comprehensive than Parallels $50 ...

Pirated copies of a Windows 7 build pegged by many as the beta Microsoft will release next month have leaked to the Internet, according to searches at several BitTorrent sites today. A search on the ...

In context: Windows 7 as a proper computing platform has long been dead, but leakers are still playing with the corpse of one of Microsoft most successful software products. A new preview build of the ...

Early this week, I tested Apple’s most powerful Mac, the eight-core Nehalem Mac Pro, running the January (build 7000) pre-release of Microsoft’s Windows 7 Ultimate operating system. The version of the ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Here's a heads up to anyone who's still using Windows 7 build 7000: bi-hourly shutdowns will begin on ...