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arstechnica.com • Thu 2009 Mar 19, 8:48pm

The final build of Internet Explorer 8 has been released in 25 languages. ... The public Windows 7 beta is not being updated, and although Microsoft released an update for IE8 for Windows 7 in February, the next update is not likely to arrive until the Windows 7 Release Candidate next month. For everyone else, in the coming weeks Microsoft will put IE8 out as an optional download on Windows Update and then later roll it out to users via Automatic Updates.

computerworld.com • Fri 2009 Feb 27, 9:10pm

A Seattle-area PC seller will offer free Windows 7 upgrades to customers who buy new Vista-powered machines starting next week, beating Microsoft and its major hardware partners to the free-upgrade punch by months.

pcworld.com • Wed 2009 Feb 11, 11:44pm

Microsoft warned enterprise customers this week that the migration path from XP to Windows 7 won't be any easier than it is to Vista, and offered recommendations for how companies can move from older versions of Windows to one of its newer client OSes.

computerworld.com • Mon 2009 Feb 2, 3:37pm

Microsoft Corp. is warning customers that tools for blocking automatic upgrades to the newest service packs of Windows Vista and Windows XP will expire in the coming months. In a note on a company blog aimed at enterprise IT professionals, Microsoft said the Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) blocking tool expires on April 28, while the one for XP SP3 expires May 19.

blogs.zdnet.com • Mon 2009 Feb 2, 3:37pm

questioning the assumption that Windows 7 will recover market share lost by Vista and asking a broad range of, I think, important questions about home computer usage costs and motivations.