[Tech] Windows 7 Beta 1 Released for Download

[VibroAxe]

So for those of you who are interested, the Windows 7 beta 1 hit MSDN on Wednesday, and gets released to the public today!

For any of you software developers with MSDN subscriptions it can be found under Windows 7 in the Operating Systems category as usual (Requires FTM), for the general public it will be available from the Windows 7 Site from this "afternoon"

Want to try the Beta? Come back the afternoon of January 9.

I'm downloading of MSDN atm, i shall report back once it's installed!

-Edit-
It would appear microsofts download servers can't quite take the pace, the Windows 7 site is taking an eon to load, and my download rate is averageing 100kBps ( I can normally max out my connection at 900kBps -> 1mBps)

-Edit 2-

Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal—we're in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We're sorry for the delay and we'll re-post the Beta as soon as we can ensure a quality download experience.

Whoops!

 

[thatbloke]

Bear in mind that this "afternoon" may be well be US time. So anything between GMT-5 to GMT-8.

 

[thatbloke]

And on teh subject of Windows 7, xkcd has made a comic about it

 

[PsiSoldier]

And on teh subject of Windows 7, xkcd has made a comic about it

Funny, because it's true.

 

[VibroAxe]

Well, my download completed overnight, but it appears i have no stupid DVD's to burn it to, so it's off to town for me, will post back later!

 

[Angelic]

I might actually try this. Not that I have a spare PC to install it on, but I'd somehow bootstrap it to this one or I dunno. I presume Win 7 will require a separate partition for themselves...?

 

[Traxata]

Yeah it's a full OS, in it's beta stage You'll probably want about 30-40GB of space for it, just be on the safe side...

 

[VibroAxe]

Hmm, well I'm posting this from windows 7, so yeah, stuff installs fine. As for performance and things, i shall write a little review once I get my GDP individual project report finished later today!

 

[Traxata]

Mines running inside of Virtual PC at the moment, maybe I should stick it on this spare HDD instead