Report: Microsoft to do free Windows 7 upgrades

07.01.2009

A public beta of Windows 7 is thought to be imminent -- perhaps as early as tomorrow, after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivers a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas -- but clues on Microsoft's own Web site seem to point to a release .

thought to be the one pegged for beta distribution have been available on file sharing sites for more than a week.