A court in Shenzhen, China has reportedly sentenced 11 members with the defendants getting between one and a half and six and half years in prison, according to Microsoft. The sentences included the longest sentences handed down for software piracy in China's history, the company said in a press release. Microsoft, as well as hundreds of customers and partners, assisted ...

The first beta of Microsoft's next operating system has apparently been spotted in the wild. Windows 7, which is expected to hit retailer shelves in time for the 2009 holiday shopping season, has reportedly popped up on torrent trackers as an ISO file. ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes also reports having a copy and has posted his first impressions of the beta....