Windows 7 Beta released in Jan 09

I'm in the process of installing Windows 7 Pre-Beta right now. I'm kind of interested in this. Anyone else?

I'll post up some details once it's finished.

nice let me know how it goes!

old news

lol bryan is the most up to date ass ever

beta
try for us

I heard about it some days ago ... and this version have much bugs watch out man

lol I didn't say it was new, i was asking if anyone had any interest in it.
I'm well aware of the bugs already. It keeps locking up on me. I might just install bootlegged Vista for now and wait for the real beta and just do it on VMware

I definitely like the new taskbar setup and I'm impressed with how fluid the Aero interface is running on my HP a1230n. It's a fairly outdated machine but from what I've heard 7 will be much less of a "memory hog" which is a huge improvement. (I'm running with 1gb RAM)

I might have to re enable Aero on my laptop. I never really gave it a try but it should be able to handle it well.

just use xp sp3 or media center best for you

VanillaSKY wrote:

just use xp sp3 or media center best for you

Why? XP is old...boring. I'm ready for something new and sexy. I had Media Center on my desktop previously.

hack_benjamin|ATMA wrote:

is this the windows 7 ?

si senor

I told u it will be much bugs
but its look realy nice
I hope it will be better than vista

when the pre-beta first came out i had just got it but hearing that they are not completly changing and optimizing a new kernel there is where i lost most of my interest in it

oh
men
Xp
is
there
and
working
eveywhere
and
for
all
just install

I'm having few problems with basic usage. It's locked up a couple times but nothing too bad.


Bryan, I thought they were creating a new kernel, thus the whole point in naming it 7.

Microsoft bloggers and the Microsoft community at large have noticed that Microsoft is being very tight-lipped about Windows 7. In a blog post, Chris Flores of the Windows Client Communications Team explains why this is: "With Windows 7, we're trying to more carefully plan how we share information with our customers and partners. This means sharing the right level of information at the right time depending on the needs of the audience."

In other words, with Windows 7, Microsoft is trying to avoid making promises as much as possible; we all know what happened when the company talked too much about Longhorn, and then delivered a completely different product, Vista, instead. Despite this new PR approach for Windows 7, Microsoft still managed to disclose something interesting today or rather, squash some rumors that have been scuttling around. Back in October, Eric Traut, one of Microsoft's chief operating system design engineers, demonstrated MinWin, a very slimmed down kernel that was expected to be the core of Windows 7.

Now, Microsoft has settled the question of whether or not the operating system would come with a completely new kernel, or simply one that builds on what we already see in Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008: "Contrary to some speculation, Microsoft is not creating a new kernel for Windows 7. Rather, we are refining the kernel architecture and componentization model introduced in Windows Vista," said Flores. He went on to say: "one of our design goals for Windows 7 is that it will run on the recommended hardware we specified for Windows Vista and that the applications and devices that work with Windows Vista will be compatible with Windows 7."
It is important to note that these are goals, and won't necessarily be achieved, but it's great to see that Microsoft has set the bar high. This is in line with Gates' recent quote about Windows 7's performance, and my speculation that Windows 7 will be about performance as Windows Vista was about security.

Microsoft has again noted that Windows 7 is still on track to be released 3 years after the general availability of Windows Vista. I've got my fingers crossed, but I'm trying to keep my hopes low as the builds are just too early in development.