Apparently Microsoft is going to release the Windows 7 beta to the public tomorrow to the first 2.5 million downloads.

The download should be able to be found on this page.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx

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So, anyone thinking about seeing if Microsoft can redeem themselves? Also, does anyone know if Windows 7 is going to the it's title when it ships?

 

While the fact that Microsoft is finally admitting the faults and overall failures of vista is nice, we must also remember that Vista was in Beta for over two years. So lets all keep our pant's on k.

 

Wow they're moving quick. I did not expect another OS so soon. Is Vista doing that poorly? (I hope so.)

 

Vista was pure crap.

This is looking... eh. The new taskbar looks just like the dock on macs.

Most of the features like the popup thing that changes as you mouseover looks pretty clunky.

There is nothing new or original to do with computing really. Its all just more of the same. Sure, maybe a bit of advancement on previous features. The only thing that does look cool is the touch screen feature. Something which I am looking forward to coming out from macs.

I remain unimpressed. I'll definitely be sticking with mac.

 

IIRC, Windows 7 isn't supposed to be some huge leap forward in terms of computing.

From Wikipedia;

 

Its also supposed to be a trasitional operation system between the NT line and a product based upon Singularity (utilizing largely the .Net framework).

How much faster is it anyways?

 

Keys are up, gogo.

 

I gots me one. It actually looks pretty good. But downloading take forever.

 

Got me keys for both the 32 and 64bit versions. Though I heard later that the 64bit keys will work on the 32bit version.

You can actually get 4 or 5 keys by pressing the back button once your download starts. Though they did start repeating themselves.

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I've got myself 3-4 keys each (not that it'll do me any good...), but I can't seem to get the download to start. Bloody Microshit, hating on the Linux users.

 

You need IE installed in order to use IE tab. Linux users won't be able to use this method unless they somehow have the Trident Rendering engine installed in linux.

An easier method is to install this IE adaptation for Linux: http://www.tatanka.com.br/

 

This shit is the motherfucking sex. Vista at XP speeds om nom nom.

 

I got my mitts on it and am testing on a middle-of-the-road box by today's standards (an A64 X2 4600+ w/ Geforce 7600GS), and I've got to say, some of the things they changed are already quite nice. Being able to change screen resolutions with one right-click and a click, as well as the more granular user access control.

 

Download squad ( http://www.downloadsquad.com/ ) has a couple of post that contain direct links to the .iso files. I am not sure if that helps you any...

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My inpressions of the operating system so far...


I have been running the 64bit beta for a couple of hours now. So far so good, I haven't run into any really serious problems. The only real problem I encountered was getting my copy of Fallout 1 (yes I said 1) to play correctly without graphical anomalies. Right click -> Properties -> Compatibility seems to have fixed that.

Total install time took me 20-25 minutes. No problems. Windows 7 was actually able to find and install the drivers that I needed for my Ethernet, Motherboard, and Graphics. It remains to be seen how it performs with "older" hardware.

Once inside, I took a minute to just stare at the desktop before me. It looks like the new taskbar was made with touchscreen interface in mind. You can change the taskbar to not combine the icons when there are multiple instance of an application running.

It almost looks like they are going for a docket type taskbar without actually making it into a docket.

Cool feature is when you are dragging a window around the screen. If you move it to the left or right, it will eventually get to the edge of the screen and display the window on which ever side you dragged the window. If you drag it to the top of your screen, it will maximize the window. Hard to explain, I'll post a picture in a minutes.

Dragging the window.
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z65/PsychoSloth/Windows 7/DesktopExample1.jpg

The end result
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z65/PsychoSloth/Windows 7/DesktopExample2.jpg

The show desktop button has been moved to the far right of the taskbar. If you hover over it, it sends you back to the desktop. Once you move your mouse, it snaps back to the window you were in.

I have had no problem installing any of the applications that I have installed thus far...
7-zip, Avast 4.8, Firefox, CCleaner, CDBurnerXP, VirtualClone Drive, foobar, Firefox, Foxit Reader, Open Office, and Whatpulse.

I think that this Operating System is what Vista was suppose to be. Everything is neater, tighter and faster than it was in Vista. I haven't done any test yet, but everything seems to move faster than it did in XP as well. It seems that Microsoft might have finally got their act together... for now

 

Vista isn't actually that bad once you go to SP1 and run through disabling all the unneeded services guys. It's not the bullshit that one MS fanboy made it out to be, but I've had it running for a bit now, and I'm picky as fuck and happy with it once I found a hack to run disable driver signing.

Unless you're running a shitty PC that is, it is a fucking resource hog period, on a lower end one I can see where it's crippling. Running my normal load out with the tweaks I made Vista is going at 70 processes, with 1.33gb of physical Ram used when running Utorrent and Firefox. To be fair though, it's only using 5% of the CPU. Memory hog yes, I could turn off prefetching and get some more RAM freeded up, but the OS just feels faster with it there, even if it's purely mental.


That being said, Vista at release took dozens of hacks to make it run worth a shit, support was pathetic for the 64bit version, no one had drivers ready, but hell certain companies are still disabling their drivers or crippling them (CREATIVE you fucks) for use on Vista unless you buy thier ultra expensive line of products and blaming it on MS.

Bottom line, I got a kick out of the Mojave experiment, it was horrible at first, but 87628717239386733893 patches later, it's useable, but XP still does it better, mostly because DX10 was a bullshit move that offered nothing worthwhile, and that really was the only reason worth upgrading was the anticipation that companies en masse would swap to dx10 and you'd be forced to upgrade. It's not as bad as everyone still thinks it is. You just have to play with it and have a decent PC

 

Thanks for that! I got 'em downloaded finally.

Got any links for tweaks you did to make Vistcrap not so crap anymore?

 

http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm
for tweaking

Ready Driver Plus for disabling drive device signing nazism bullshit.