Today I installed Windows 7 Ultimate Beta from a Transcend JetFlash USB Flash disk drive in dual boot mode with Windows Vista.
Here are the steps you need to follow in order to install Windows 7 Beta from a USB drive:
1) Make your USB drive bootable using DiskPart-
a) Open the command prompt and type diskpart
b) [...]

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Microsoft has announced the beta availability of the Windows 7 operating system. The beta version of Windows 7 can be downloaded today by MSDN, TechBeta and TechNet subscribers. Consumers who want to test-drive the beta will be able to download it beginning Jan. 9 at http://www.microsoft.com/windows7

Some of the new features in Windows 7 Beta [...]

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Opera has released Opera 10.0 Alpha based on Presto 2.2 rendering engine which provides significant improvements in speed, performance and security.
Key new features of Opera 10.0 Alpha include:
- Presto 2.2 Engine: Presto 2.2 features numerous new features and bug fixes such as Web font support, Improved CSS performance, etc.
- Performance boost: It offers upto [...]

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WARP10 (Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform) is a new component that will be part of DirectX graphics technology in Windows 7. WARP10 is a high speed, fully conformant software based rasterizer that can be used as a low end alternative to emulate Direct X 10.x utilizing your computer’s CPU processing power, even if your GPU does [...]

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Fennec (Mobile Firefox) has reached milestone 9 and this release is being called User Experience alpha. As with the previous releases, M9 is targeted at the Nokia N800/N810 (Maemo) Internet tablet. Good progess has been made for Mobile Firefox for Windows Mobile but there is no milestone yet. Also, Fennec is being released for Windows, [...]

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