Windows 7 Beta 1 Hitting January 13
Windows 7 appears to be advancing at a noticeable pace, with the first beta release hitting developer hands in just little over a month.

Bob Familiar noted on his blog that attendees of upcoming MSDN conferences will receive a Windows 7 Beta DVD when it is available. Keith Combs from Technet further clarified this point saying that attendees of the January 13 events in Chicago and Minneapolis will be able to pick up the DVDs at the event itself.
The official MSDN Developer Conference page verifies the upcoming release of the beta, stating, “All attendees will receive a Windows 7 Beta DVD. If the Windows 7 Beta is not available at the time of the event, the DVD will be shipped to attendees when it becomes available.”
It looks like Microsoft is aiming to erase the talk of Vista as soon as possible. Windows 7 is slated to ship in time for holiday 2009.
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It does extremely well. Pretty damn stable even though it's not the full OS.
It's the full version that concerns me. Will it behave as well when it puts on the pounds?
I really want the DVD. Just for commemorative purposes. Too bad it's in Chicago...
Try looking at the Event Viewer and switch quickly between various event log events, MMC crashes big time. Ugh this is horrible? What do you folks do that have a build of Windows 7??? Nothing? OMG, just push it a little and it tumbles down and not very gracefully either.
Anyways,I'll probably just end up pirating the beta,since microsoft doesn't want to give meany of the betas...
What Build were you using? Build 6801 is quite stable.
I think Microsoft has learned a few lessons with Vista that they won't easily forget. I remember the Vista betas, and those were pretty bad. The fact that I can use something that isn't even a Beta, as a stable OS gives me quite a bit of hope for the final product.
Is your friend using an overclocked Tualatin core P3?
Finally getting NT6 down to one o/s for 32 & one for 64 bit is big start. 2011 is predicted to be first all 64 bit o/s, windows 8.
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Are you serious??? After all Win 7 is based on the Vista code base.
I'm so sick of people writing that crap. They'"It looks like Microsoft is aiming to erase the talk of Vista as soon as possible."
I'm so sick of people writing that crap. MS will work to erase Win7 just as fast.
Making the release cycle faster keeps people from getting all attached like they did with XP.
These days claiming MS is trying to forget vista and move on quickly is misleading and sounds ignorant.
Before the whole Vista wait, we'd get a new Windows version every 2-3 years. So this isn't all that new. Vista was delayed a couple years.