I woke up this morning and found an Office 2010 Technical Preview invitation waiting for me. I could not stop my excitement and quickly downloaded it. Join me in downloading + installing this wonderful product!

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Microsoft has officially announced the availbiliy of download of Windows 7  Beta. It is now completely legal to download and install Windows 7. From the download page, the requirements are absolutely impressive, and if I reckon, it is much less than Windows Vista. Good job!

Minimum recommended specs call for:

• 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
• 1 GB of system memory
• 16 GB of available disk space
• Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)
• DVD-R/W Drive
• Internet access (to download the Beta and get updates)

This Beta expires on August 1, 2009, so you still have some time to play with it. Anyway, I am not going to continue and talk about useless stuff, download it at this link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

Oh, here is a wonderful comic from XKCD talking about Windows 7:

Windows Live Messenger 2009 (also known as Windows Live Messenger 14 & WLM 2009) is currently in development and is expected to be released on 10 February 2009. But meanwhile, we got hold of a copy of the beta and tested it out.

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Heard of Blue Screen of Death? What about the “Black” one?

Microsoft just launched yet another Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) update to take action on pirated users on October 21th. This was considered “The biggest action ever done to fake software users”. Users of Ingenuine copies of Microsoft Softwares will receive some kind of “punishment’.

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