6 Free Microsoft Products For Windows 7

This means that documents or files can be shared, reviewed or updated in real time across several geographical locations with the only limitations being your broadband connectivity.

A Windows Live ID is necessary to start sessions but not to participate in them. There's no support for sound (use MSN Messenger for that) and everyone participating in the session will have to download and install Sharedview. You can download Sharedview here.

Last year, Microsoft purchased Caligari, a small company that specialises in 3D-modelling, and overnight decided to give away its $600 flagship product, TrueSpace, for free.

Version 7.61 (available here) is a full 3D authoring package which can rival with much bigger and expensive 3D modellers. Clearly it is not for everybody but if someone is willing to dedicate some time to learn the platform, then there's some significant value attached to it.

For those looking to recreate the working environment of Windows XP on Windows 7, there's always Windows XP Mode RC which requires Windows 7 Professional or WIndows 7 Ultimate as well as a Virtualization engine such as Windows Virtual PC.

This free download is targeting those who want to use legacy applications on Windows 7 either in 32-bit or 64-bit mode. You will need to have a computer whose CPU supports hardware Virtualization (such as Intel's VT or AMD-V). 

The last application that will prove to be a boon for anyone juggling between different computers may want to try SyncToy, which as its name indicates, is a tool that helps synchronise content between folders quickly and easily.

The application can be downloaded from Microsoft's website and provides with a bewildering array of features including exclusion filtering based on name and even a fuzzy matching mode (to be used with care).