Keith Combs from Microsoft anounced today that those attending Microsoft Developer Conferences in Mid-January 09 (01/13/2009) would be able to to take a DVD with the Windows 7 Beta, the long anticipated Windows upgrade to Vista.

This is the second release of Windows 7 to b released by microsoft since the Pre Beta was released in October.

You can view the full information on teh Windows 7 Beta 1 Release on the MIcrosoft Technet blog Here

This is great news for those lokoing for a slightly less cluttered and annoying version of Vista, as Windows 7 is rumoured to be much simpler and intuative compared to its ratehr overhyped predecessor, we can only hope Microsoft have learned from their previous mistakes on this score!