Windows 7 Beta:Available to the public Friday for download

Microsoft is busily promoting Windows 7, its next operating system and successor to the much-maligned Vista.At the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced a free public beta of the new OS, which reportedly will be less of a resource hog than Vista and may even run well on netbooks. The Windows 7 public beta is reportedly "feature complete" and will