Windows 7 Beta Available

Author Hugo Jobling
Published 12th Jan 2009
Windows 7 Beta Available
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Stop the presses, folks. Windows 7 is, finally, available to download. Problems over the last few days, with Microsoft's servers completely failing to survive the rush of would-be beta testers, have now apparently been resolved and the initial 2.5m download cap removed by way of compensation.


Unless you already jumped on the early Windows 7 leak or you're in possession of a developer build, then now is your chance to get hands-on with the successor to the (to put it nicely) controversial Vista OS. Superficially there may not be much immediately discernible difference, but under Windows 7's surface a lot of work has been undertaken to make this the best Windows yet.

From my short time with the Beta build over the weekend, that seems to be the case. Admittedly I'm running a pretty fast system (3.0GHz Intel Core 2 Quad, 4GB DDR3) but my partitioned Windows 7 install definitely felt faster than Vista, which I usually use. Were it not for the 1st of August expiry date I'd consider switching over, program compatibility pending.

If you're feeling daring, the download link is just below.

Link:
Windows 7 Beta Download.

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comment Brian ONeill said on 12th January 2009

I basically consider it as a service pack for vista, therefore i was going to be brave and install it on my work pc. Mind you my plan is too take a back up of my disk image, so i c... more

comment Alex said on 12th January 2009

Very stable, though I've got nothing installed really as of yet. Also, I wouldn't bother installing it on your work PC unless you're going to dual boot it. You'... more

comment Pbryanw said on 12th January 2009

@Alex - I also loved the startup screen when I first booted Windows 7, but I'm not sure if it will start annoying me once I've seen it a few hundred times.

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comment xbrumster said on 18th January 2009

i've been using it for quite a while now since the day 7000 was released. I was lucky enough to grasp one before their server went down.

Made a clean install on... more

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