Microsoft’s latest Windows avatar,Windows 7 (Beta) can be downloaded for free on 9 January 2009.

If you want to download head over to this Windows 7 page and download it. And do it real fast because Windows 7 Beta will be available to the first 2.5 million downloaders only. So be quick.

This Beta will expire on 1st August 2009.

Here is an excerpt from the Windowsteamblog:

On January 9th, the Windows 7 Beta will be available for Windows enthusiasts to download via the Windows 7 page on Windows.com. The Windows 7 Beta is going to be available download-only (we’re not sending out physical media) and available for a limited time to the first 2.5 million people who download the beta.

The Windows 7 Beta will be available in English, German, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi, and each language will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions (except Hindi which will only be available in 32-bit). Because the Windows 7 Beta will be offered download-only, it will be provided to you as an ISO image (an .iso file) that you download. After downloading either the 32-bit or 64-bit ISO image of the Windows 7 Beta, you will be required to burn the ISO image to a DVD to install Windows 7. So you want to be sure you have a DVD burner before spending the time downloading the ISO image.

Happy downloading.