Microsoft announced that Windows 7 is going into public beta yesterday evening. The first beta version of the successor to Windows Vista is immediately available as a downloadable disk image to MSDN, TechBeta, and TechNet subscribers, while the general public will get to test-drive the new operating system starting Friday.

Windows 7 is expected to hit shelves toward the end of this year or the start of 2010, according to Microsoft’s broad roadmap for operating system releases, which specifies a three-year gap between releases.

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