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Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, is expected to announce the availability of Windows 7 Beta 1 to pre-approved testers in his Consumer Electronics Show keynote address on January 7.

As reported on the technology site, techarp.com, Microsoft has issued a draft of the Windows 7 Technical Guarantee Program to their OEM partners on December 10. Also per the report, the Redmond-based software major has given its OEM partners exactly one month to provide their feedback before Microsoft finalizes the program details. Techarp has managed to obtain a copy of the draft, which tentatively refers to the program as the Windows 7 Upgrade Program.

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Scott Wylie, a NZ Director of Developer & Platform Strategy, is one of the many testing the pre-beta releases of Windows 7. In his blog, Scott Wylie gives his opinion of the pre-beta release, which post was subsequently removed for obvious reasons. But a Google Cache of the post can be accessed and here’s what he had to say. read more »