Windows 7 Beta No Longer Available for DL
Windows fans who have been meaning to get around to downloading the Windows 7 Beta have officially missed the boat. The Beta is officially offline as of today. Those in the midst of downloading have until February 12 to complete their download and those who have yet to get a product key can do so at their leisure.
Users who visit the download page are now being greeted with “Sorry, Windows 7 Beta downloads are no longer available. If your download was interrupted, you can still finish it. And, you can still register for a product key or look up the key you've already gotten.”
There’s also a few reminders for Beta testers, like watching the release notes for updated reports on bugs and fixes.
We’ve been writing about all things Windows 7 for a while but one thing we haven’t done is ask you guys what you think of it -- what do you think of the six versions of Windows 7; which version will you be getting; or if you’re upgrading to Windows 7 at all. Let us know in the comments section below!
This doesn't change the fact that there is very little new. I'm more excited about what will be in NT 7.0 (Windows 7 is ironically NT 6.1).
Like I've been saying on my blog, I really like what I've seen so far. I hope I can have enough cash to buy the Ultimate, but Home Premium wouldn't be too bad for me either.
I put it on my new built machine and am loving the faster boot and shutdown times. This looks like it should be a hit, (slicker and faster). I like the new task bar. I will be switching all my Vista machines over to this when released.It will make my laptop respond faster and leaner.
LOL Here we are in 2009, and their latest Beta Windows 7 still shows a Copyright of 2007. But, then again... perhaps Microsoft is just admitting what everyone else already claims. Windows 7 is just Vista with patches...?
About Windows 7, It's a Vista with new look and with some reprogramming and solving some vista bugs that results ====> New OS with XP speed!!! (and little up!) so until now, no revolution happened here!
About Download! I was downloading it through torrent, coz bad Microsoft server problems!
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If you look at left windows you can see Build 6801 and it is not the final one! (right now is 7000)
* My System Specifications(I know it! Its too old!)
Processor = ...... Intel 3GHz HT - 1MB Cache - Socket 478
Phy. Memory = .... (512MB * 2) 1024MB
VGA = ............ MSI NVidia Gforce 5600 * 256MB
1) Boot time (from Start until desktop appear)
Windows XP SP3: .... 30.25
Windows 7: ......... 40.04 (By Disabling Network = 38.31 + also By disabling Aero = 37.63)
2) Start and Completely load time of "Office Word 2003" and "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
Office Word 2007 @ XP SP3 : ................................ FS(1) 6.80 .. SS 1.86
Office Word 2007 @ XP SP3 with Super Cache enabled (2): .... FS 4.35 .. SS 1.92
Office Word 2007 @ W7beta : ................................ FS 6.08 .. SS 1.09
Adobe Photoshop cs2 @ XP SP3 : .............................FS 16.60 .. SS 6.39
Adobe Photoshop cs2 @ XP SP3 with Super Cache enabled : ... FS 13.12 .. SS 5.99
Adobe Photoshop cs2 @ W7beta : .............................FS 16.64 .. SS 10.43
3) Compressing a 108MB text file (using WinRAR v3.80)
Windows XP SP3: ... 1:07.07
Windows XP SP3 with Super Cache enabled (2) .... 1:06.31
Windows 7: ........ 1:19.54
(1): FS = First Time Start & SS = Second Time Start (to test Windows caching capabilities)
(2): Super Cache is a great caching program from SuperSpeed company.
What about yours!?
obviously with faster cpu, the differences in speeds would be much less apparent. 10 seconds difference in bootup time is noticeable, but consider it on a quad core 3ghz core 2, that gap should translate to around 2 seconds or less if it scales linearly with processing power (netburst was garbage), even with your old ram. my basic point is that i would expect windows 7 vs windows xp comparisons to reveal very little difference in performance, even if xp has the edge it is so minimal with modern hardware i don't find any rationalization to run an antiquated os. fact of the matter is vista is very mature and stable, windows 7 builds on this. i believe the initial driver issues nvidia had with vista have tainted its reputation -- you still hear people afraid to use vista because of driver issues and these were resolved nearly 2 years ago. that also plagued gaming scores and stability, but none of it was MS's fault -- it was nvidia's. now with stable drivers i think people will adopt windows 7 more than vista and we can actually get people to ditch xp. there's no reason to use an 8 year old os. in fact, i bet a comparison between xp and windows 2000 would reveal that win2k is faster -- we should all switch to that and get it to load 400ms quicker and play games with 0.8fps more!
I read that vista uses free RAM and CPU cycles to preload and cache apps and data. So even if vista uses 5 to 10% of cpu when moving a mouse to me that is fine because when vista loads an app like a game it puts all of the computers resources into the game.
Aside from startup times, I've not noticed a difference in speed. But from the beggining, I've thought it was a placebo effect. Windows Vista used a 3d desktop with a hardware driven GUI, and precached and shared the precached memory and CPU cycles. Everyone seen 40-50 percent resources used on startup and shouted OMG!!!ONEELEVEN, Resource Hog Vista!!! But with today's standard hardware, it performs on par, if not faster than XP, with direct X 10 and better tools/usability.
Do I think Windows 7 is nice? Deffinately. It will reface Vista's fugly public image.
Will I be Getting Windows 7 on release? Yes, but only because of the Handy MSDN network that provides me with a free copy.
Nice, I hadn't thought of that!!!!
It's called the upgrade version.