Post by Ephraim Desole on Jan 9, 2009 18:32:55 GMT -5
Microsoft is officially releasing Windows 7 Beta 1 (Build 7000) today.
Windows 7 is basically a Vista layout, but it runs even faster and smoother than XP. It has a lot of enhanced features and new technology - such as touch-screen capability, handwriting to text, new features for open windows. It has everything Vista has, and more - but runs much faster.
Windows 7 is said to require much less computer resources than Vista or XP.
Minimum requirements:
* Processor: 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
* Memory: 1 GB of system memory
* Hard drive: 16 GB of available disk space
* Video card: Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128MB memory (in order to enable Aero theme)
* Drive: DVD-R/W drive
* Internet connection (to download the Beta and get updates)
The Beta is going to be released on this page (so they say) sometime this afternoon FOR FREE! There is no announced time. They are limiting it to 2.5 million downloads (which will go fast). It probably will be annoying since the servers will most likely be overloaded by a ton of people at once.
The only catch is, this Beta version will only be activated until August 2009 (although I'm sure there will be cracks for it by that time which will disable the deactivation). And remember, this is still a BETA so it's not guaranteed to be completely stable, so download at your own risk.
One thing to add. Windows 7 comes with IE8 Beta preinstalled.
To all of you who decide to get this great OS, enjoy!
Make sure you are within the first 2.5 million people to download.
Happy downloading!
EDIT: ISO for the 32bit version available here.
Keys you gotta wait for.
EDIT II: I cannot guarantee that you will get it.
My download stopped at 456 MB out of 2.43 GB.
EDIT III: The downloads keep failing.
I don't see much a point in stopping, so I'm still gonna keep trying.
EDIT IV: Finally. This took a really long time.
I'll let you all know how it is as soon as I have it installed.
Windows 7 is basically a Vista layout, but it runs even faster and smoother than XP. It has a lot of enhanced features and new technology - such as touch-screen capability, handwriting to text, new features for open windows. It has everything Vista has, and more - but runs much faster.
Windows 7 is said to require much less computer resources than Vista or XP.
Minimum requirements:
* Processor: 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
* Memory: 1 GB of system memory
* Hard drive: 16 GB of available disk space
* Video card: Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128MB memory (in order to enable Aero theme)
* Drive: DVD-R/W drive
* Internet connection (to download the Beta and get updates)
The Beta is going to be released on this page (so they say) sometime this afternoon FOR FREE! There is no announced time. They are limiting it to 2.5 million downloads (which will go fast). It probably will be annoying since the servers will most likely be overloaded by a ton of people at once.
The only catch is, this Beta version will only be activated until August 2009 (although I'm sure there will be cracks for it by that time which will disable the deactivation). And remember, this is still a BETA so it's not guaranteed to be completely stable, so download at your own risk.
One thing to add. Windows 7 comes with IE8 Beta preinstalled.
To all of you who decide to get this great OS, enjoy!
Make sure you are within the first 2.5 million people to download.
Happy downloading!
EDIT: ISO for the 32bit version available here.
Keys you gotta wait for.
EDIT II: I cannot guarantee that you will get it.
My download stopped at 456 MB out of 2.43 GB.
EDIT III: The downloads keep failing.
I don't see much a point in stopping, so I'm still gonna keep trying.
EDIT IV: Finally. This took a really long time.
I'll let you all know how it is as soon as I have it installed.