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 ...

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 ...

Over the weekend we finally found enough time to install Windows 7 build 7000 beta 1 and here are some of our first impressions. We still don't understand the excitement, as Windows 7 is nothing more ...

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 ...

A new build version of the Windows 7 beta has been available on several torrent sites as Microsoft ended the distribution of an earlier version, according to a report. Computerworld noticed that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...