Microsoft 7

[Zantheus]

Well looks like they want to spring some life back into their OS's...

Windows 7 beta tested, photo'd, deemed 'massive improvement' over Vista - Engadget

I personally enjoy Vista but will have to keep an eye out on this one

[Dead...Again]

Same here. I have heard that they are trying to make this one the "Linux killer."

One wierd thing is we have been trying to get a copy of the beta at work and haven't been able to find one. Can't even find it on MSDN...

[Duke{CLR}]

This looks promising.

[Trooper110]

I think I read something about them announcing the public beta sometime in the next 2 weeks Dead...Again. As far as on MSDN, not sure, cause I know it's been out in a private/invite beta for a while now.

[WalkinTarget]

Public beta will be released on January 5th. It was originally scheduled for December 18, but was pushed back to clean up some driver issues.

Yes, I did my homework, and you will see me posting my annoying thoughts on it a day after it comes out. I even put together a parts PC to run it.

The beta is surprisingly stable and bug-free at this point, and of course the torrent sites have already released build 7000 into the wild. I've no reason at all to get excited about it, as I have enough hardware to beat Vista into submission and act like I expect it to, but if I get free copies like I did with Vista (three free ranging from Business to 32/64 Ultimate) then I will most assuredly be running it just because its free .. and well .. that's about it.


Anyone else going to be toying around with it ? Ohh, and in regards to the MSDN question, it was effectively pulled from the MSDN subs after the leak to the torrent websites. I see no reason at all why MS did that, but that is their answer on the subject. Such a stupid idea and thought progression from MS, but aren't we getting used to that by now ??

[Zantheus]

Ill be toying around with it on my other system and seeing if it is worth replacing Vista with... I love Vista but am always open minded for upgrades

[marvindecrain]

Ill be toying around with it on my other system and seeing if it is worth replacing Vista with... I love Vista but am always open minded for upgrades

I have installed Win7 beta on my free 30 Gb partition.
Whole system takes bit more than 8 Gigs of HD space/ vista needs 15 Gb or more (don`t remember). And like for me is working much better than vista . Also look very similar to vista with Aero things and few more functions , but like I said before this beta looks better than vista.
Later I will try to post some system SS

[AmazingRedd]

i would probably be trying the beta on my older machine. its this come out to be a more reliable and better Os than vista. im gonna definitely getting out when its on sale.

[{CLR}geneSW]

I'll mess around with it when it goes public.

[marvindecrain]

desktop with open start menu.


IE 8 beta.


some devices on my pc. All drivers from Win beta relase (working)

[Zantheus]

Thx for the imgs Marvin.... I guess u can confirm something for me then...I just came across a guy on a blog saying that if u disable UAC all the "gadgets" of the OS stop working....does this happen?

[marvindecrain]

Thx for the imgs Marvin.... I guess u can confirm something for me then...I just came across a guy on a blog saying that if u disable UAC all the "gadgets" of the OS stop working....does this happen?

No idea ... I`m using this just 1 day and I don`t check everythings yet

[marvindecrain]

Few more img.

All control panel features


Desktop gadgets... not running at startup. User can choose what he/she want to be displayed on desktop. (my current time on clock )

[{CLR} Cobalt]

So why didnt microsoft just put this out instead of Vista.

And microsoft wonders why nobody likes em.

[ChrisWW11]

So what's the main difference. Does it run faster than XP and vista? And also does it look similar to vista?