Microsoft has licensed the software-download site Digital River to distribute Windows 7 ISO files for installing from a DVD or USB drive. The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool enables you to create an ...

Microsoft has released a tool that lets netbook owners install Windows 7 on their machines using a USB flash drive, sidestepping the usual requirement of a DVD drive ...

Microsoft said Wednesday it has reposted a tool to the Internet that aids installing Windows 7 on Netbooks and computers without an optical drive. The software maker pulled the Windows 7 USB/DVD ...

The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool is confirmed to include GPLv2 code, so Microsoft will release the source code next week Microsoft Friday acknowledged that its ...

Brier Dudley has good news, everyone: Responding to concerns about loading Windows 7 onto … computers that don’t have DVD drives, Microsoft introduced a tool to load the software onto a USB memory ...

Want to install Windows 7 on your Windows XP netbook, but don’t feel like buying the Windows 7 installation disc and a USB DVD drive to do it? Microsoft is now offering netbook users a way to download ...

Microsoft has re-released a Windows 7 installation tool that it admitted included open-source code, and has posted the utility’s source code to its own open-source site. Microsoft yesterday ...

Microsoft has yanked a tool it touted as a way for netbook owners to install Windows 7 without a DVD drive after a prominent blogger accused the company of using open-source code without acknowledging ...

For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...

Reader Chris needs to reinstall Windows 7 Home Basic on his laptop. Just one problem: he lost his recovery discs. A more common problem is when you need to reinstall Windows and you never had recovery ...