Windows 7 Beta release!
 

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.

I already have Windows 7 Beta...it's been released to developers for a few days now. Being a Vista-hater, I have to say I absolutely love this new OS. It's so fast and sleek and simple to use. I tried FFR on it with FF3 and it ran beautifully. So this would probably be a great thing to get for you people having problems running FFR on Vista.

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). I'm definitely keeping it because I've never been happier with an OS. And remember, this is still a BETA so it's not guaranteed to be completely stable, so download at your own risk. Personally, I haven't found any bugs yet and it runs just like a full release so far.

One thing to add. Windows 7 comes with IE8 Beta preinstalled. I could not run FFR on IE8 Beta because it would lag a lot. FF3 worked great though. I'm sure IE7 would work as well; haven't tried it though.

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!

Re: Windows 7 Beta release!
 

:O!

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Maybe I'll try to download it later, sounds pretty awesome if it's faster than old XP. =P

Just got over a GB of RAM too recently, so I'd have all the minimum requirements so nothing shouldn't go wrong with those aspects of the OS.

Re: Windows 7 Beta release!
 

Sounds like you should get a Mac instead.

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Damn it 56k. :(

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16gb of free space?? is that rly neccesary?

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I guess the actual platform of the OS got huge. From what I remember, Windows XP's platform is around 3 GB. So, hopefully with all of that extra space needed comes better content.

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16 gb isn't really that much. Most computers come with 250+ xD

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Hahaha, yeah. I have like 170 GB, so it wouldn't be bad for me to get. I currently have the specs to run the OS comfortably. Maybe if I'm lucky, I can head over to someone's house and get the new OS.

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It's not looking too good for Microsoft's servers atm lol.
It's going to be very hard to get.

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Im using a comp from 03 thats supposed to be for school administrator purposes so i have only a 30gb harddrive =P
yes i live like that

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If you're using a computer from 03, you probably shouldn't get Windows 7 :P

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i want it to feel special tyvm
Maybe ill giv it to my 10 yr old cousin who has some 3k laptop..
-.- The 7 features do look rly good though, maybe in the next year ill get vista

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i want to download D:

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Wow have fun grabbing it, SERVER IS TOO EFFING BUSY. It's probably gonna be mayhem in the next few hours trying to grab a seat for the DL. I might see if any seeds are up :3

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You can probably find seeds for it. The main purpose of the wait is to get the official serial codes for it so you can have a genuine version, rather than using a crack which won't let you get any updates.

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Yey! Something new to break.

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Wait, so I can't download it yet?
Damn, I'ma get this right awayyyy, having like 5 vista computers and 1 xp comp which is my brothers fucing blowwwwwwwwwwwwwwsssssssssss.

I can't fucing wait for this you have no damn idea...
ffr is lyf

Edit: Hell yeah, gonna have this on my desktop, my family desktop, my laptop, ahhhhhhhhhh this is a dream come trueeeee

Re: Windows 7 Beta release!
 

ISO for the 32bit version available here.

Keys you gotta wait for.

Re: Windows 7 Beta release!
 

Is the error I get from clicking that because the servers are busy?