Many of those who participated in the technical beta testing program for Windows 7 (not the public beta and RC) spent a lot of hours putting the earlier versions of the OS through its paces and filing bug reports to help Microsoft fix the problems they found. So they weren't very happy about not getting a free copy of the final code. Well, Microsoft listened and has now done an about-face on that decision. On July 30th, they announced in the Windows team blog that technical beta testers will each get a full copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for personal use only. Read more here...
