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Old January 8th, 2009, 10:30 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Windows 7 Beta To Be Released On January 9

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It is finally official. After a period of heavy speculations when the Windows 7 Beta would be released to the public the final date of the Windows 7 beta release has been published by the Windows 7 Dev Team. Windows 7 Beta will be released publicly on January 9 at the official Microsoft Windows 7 website. MSDN subscriber and Technet subscribers can download the beta of Windows 7 already.

http://windows7news.com/2009/01/08/w...-on-january-9/
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Old January 8th, 2009, 10:40 AM     #2 (permalink)
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And it goes without saying but I'll say it anyway-> Do Not Install it on a mission critical machine.
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Old January 8th, 2009, 10:47 AM     #3 (permalink)
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It has to be noted that the Windows 7 Beta will be made available for a limited time to 2.5 million downloaders only.

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Old January 8th, 2009, 05:02 PM     #4 (permalink)
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And it goes without saying but I'll say it anyway-> Do Not Install it on a mission critical machine.

Isn't this applicable to all M$ systems
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Old January 8th, 2009, 05:10 PM     #5 (permalink)
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A guy from MS has also said they dont expect Windows 7 to be released in 09

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Old January 8th, 2009, 06:09 PM     #6 (permalink)
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And here Ballmer is saying Win 7 is nearly ready.
Microsoft's Ballmer: Windows 7 is nearly final - CES 2009- msnbc.com
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Old January 8th, 2009, 06:25 PM     #7 (permalink)
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A: I don't have an extra machine to risk except a sock-A which probably wouldn't run it anyway.
B: I don't want to slow my machine down for hours to DL it...
C: I'll be sticking to XP for as long as I can anyway, TYVM.

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Old January 8th, 2009, 06:41 PM     #8 (permalink)
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Even in old March news they're projecting 2010
http://windows7news.com/2008/03/13/m...-release-year/
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I believe they want to release before Snow Leopard hitted the street...

Guess not..

Still good to see a beta for it.
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Old January 11th, 2009, 12:52 PM     #10 (permalink)
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I downloaded this lastnight and got it setup.
Really, I like it. I understand it's BETA now, and things are gonna change. But it saw all my hardware without any drivers installed, which is better then vista already. Vista didn't see me LAN or Onboard sound.

Anywho, it seems to be quicker then Vista once you on the desktop screen. It takes about as long to boot as Vista.
So far so good IMO.
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