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Just about now (18:30 PST on 7 January 2008), Steve Ballmer should be delivering his pre-CES keynote<\/a>, during which he will announce the public release of the betas for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.<\/p>\n

As 18:30 PST is 02:30 GMT, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be asleep when this post goes live (ah, the wonders of modern technology) but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post more in the morning (once I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve checked exactly what information has been made public).  There is so much I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been waiting to say about Windows 7 but have been unable to do so because of non-disclosure agreements and hopefully now that has changed. Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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