We have not written many articles about Windows 7 here at Ghacks in the past. This was mainly because of the fact that virtually any other website on the planet did post every tidbit of news that they could get their hands on. Today however is an important date as Microsoft will publish a public download link to both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7 Ultimate Beta on the official Windows 7 homepage. The download is capped at 2.5 million and will be removed from the website once that figure has been reached. This means that you will have to be fast to grab a copy of the Windows 7 Beta if you want to test it.
The Beta of Windows 7 is based on build 7000 which has been leaked to the dark side of the Internet last month. There has been lots of talk about the new “features” of Windows 7 and we do not want to get into detail here as you have most likely read about them all on other sites in the past months. To make it short: Windows 7 feels like a complete responsive operating system. Many users would say it looks and feels like a streamlined and optimized Windows Vista. It uses less system resources, is more responsive and has several usability improvements. It is interesting for instance that netbook manufacturers will release netbooks running on Windows 7 when it comes out, something that seems very unlikely for Windows Vista.
We (that’s me and Everton who writes at Connected Internet) have a Windows 7 site up which is reporting on all the news about the new Microsoft operating system. The site has a busy forum, probably the busiest Windows 7 forum out there at the moment. You can find hardware and software help at the Windows 7 forum, a tweaks section and several boards with general discussion about the upcoming operating system.
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i was wondering when i’d see a post about this here :)
i wish microsoft would announce when the beta will be made available. “afternoon” is just too nebulous. i want to get a serial, but i’m afraid of missing out. i have a feeling they’ll go fast!
Note that the download itself won’t be capped after 2.5 million, that’s just the number of keys that Microsoft is giving out.
Well though I am content with my XP I will give Win 7 a try. Have to admit that I do find it strange that they offer the mp3-fix as a patch and not integrate it from the beginning in the open build. Though its just a beta I will give it a try in produktive mode. My hdd is to full to install it beside XP.
great stuff MS. You once get credit für the best MS-OS introduced to beta ever and ruin it by not being able to handle the downloads. After all those reports and posts in the net one should be able to estimate the number of users who want to download the beta and stock hardware up propperly.
Why not use a torrent to publish and only use their own servers for the registration keys?!
If you’re interested in how to install Windows 7 Beta (or the final version) using a USB thumbdrive, you can check out my blog:
http://www.multimolti.de/blog/2008/12/14/install-windows-7-on-asus-eee-pc-900/
This is useful if you want to try it on a netbook, since they don’t have CD drives.