Windows 7 avaliable for download

Windows will begin offering Win 7 for download begining 01/09/2009.

It will be a public beta, so user beware.

If all goes well (hardware support), and time allows. I'll give a brief reveiw after I've installed. Then follow up about a week later, with additional info.

For those that want to read more, or take the DL. Follow the links.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/114827

 

It's not what they will be selling on the shelf. IE still has bugs.

It's a test platform, and not recommended for anyone who "needs" their PC on a stable and constant basis.

Windows has always been Beta too me. As it rarely functions as advertised. Even XP crashed during it's great public unveiling. LOL

If you recall the BSOD (blue screen of death). We no longer get it with XP and Vista...simply because it just freezes, and sends the error code to MicroSoft, in the background (or stores it in an event log). Rather than showing it to you.

SSDD

 

LMAO.. I've been checking since midnight, off and on.

It's tempting to grab it off a torrent

 

LMAO... 7 free months is 7 months. And it can't possibly be any worse than what I'm dealing with now.

32bit is 2.44 gig. And I still have to get the 64bit DL.

I have Vista 64 now, and want to uninstall/install it almost daily. The uptime has been great. But something crashes on it at least twice a day.

Windows has been beta, since 3.1. Nothing new there. Plus I get the oppurtunity to get a leg up on the issues I'll be looking at on the remaining family members PC's.

Vista has been good (simple) for remote access of issues. If 7 is even more stable. All the better

BTW... throughput has been good. I averaged about 6 meg DL speeds throughout. Thankfully AT&T isn't blocking MicroSoft yet