Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay 848
Z80xxc! writes "The Windows 7 Beta release is now available for download by the general public, in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Microsoft had previously announced availability around 3 PM PST on Friday, but after unexpected numbers of people proved to be interested in the download, had to postpone it to add more servers."
All that trouble... (Score:2, Funny)
...and we still don't care. :P
Re:Its just a service pack for Vista (Score:5, Funny)
Released to public after delay? (Score:5, Funny)
They finally released it after a delay.
The delay?
They couldn't figure out how to upload the torrent to PirateBay.....
Re:Its just a service pack for Vista (Score:4, Funny)
Unsupported browser? (Score:3, Funny)
I am running Konqueror on KDE (in FreeBSD). I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to test that combination for their web site.
Re:Released to public after delay? (Score:5, Funny)
The delay?
They couldn't figure out how to upload the torrent to PirateBay.....
Not to worry; someone has already taken care of it [thepiratebay.org].
Re:Its just a service pack for Vista (Score:5, Funny)
But what about Mojave? Mojave's AWESOME!
My experience with Windows Hitler. (Score:5, Funny)
I've installed Windows 7 32-bit Pre-Pre-Release (build 7000 for inquiring minds) on my gaming machine and it works surprisingly well. Ventrilo took a bit of fiddling to work right, but other than that it worked better out of the box than XP Service Pack 3 does. It didn't need any extra drivers, although it did prompt me to update the Graphics card driver, which it happily did automatically.
Then the trouble started.
Since I had several firefox tabs open, I opted to put the computer into Hibernation for the night so I could continue with them this morning. It obliged surprisingly quickly and shut off the system power. Fans went off, case lights went off, and the USB devices lost power. The system was off. Off I Tell you!
I went to bed. While reading Paris in the 20th Century [amazon.com] by Jules Verne, almost an hour after I had shut off the machine, quietly returned to life! I thought that some bump or vibration or some minuscule cosmic ray had activated the case button and quickly dismissed it as some one-off odd event. I went back to reading about Le Grande Entrepôt.
About a chapter later, I don't know how much time had passed, the beast roared back to life with the ferocity of all fans at one hundred percent and the squeal of the system speaker! Twice in one night was too much for coincidence. I put the machine into hibernation once again, unplugged the power supply and resigned myself that if it came back to life once more, I would call a priest for an exorcism. (which would be quite a phone call, considering that I do not frequent churches)
Tonight, I will be sleeping with a copy of dBaN [dban.org] by my side.
Re:One of the coolest features... (Score:5, Funny)
Nice post and tidbits there, just one tiny nitpick.
which if you hover over makes all windows 100% translucent
At what point is something considered 100% translucent? 99.90% transparent? 99.99999999%? =)
Re:Its just a service pack for Vista (Score:3, Funny)
http://awesome.naquadah.org/
Re:Its just a service pack for Vista (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why 32-bit? (Score:4, Funny)
You geeks and your fancy kitchens. My disposal is just a simple on/off switch hooked up to a motor. No 32-bit logic in there...
Re:Having Dumped OS X, The Win 7 Beta Is Excellent (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
Have you installed Windows 7 Beta?
Did your computer grow a Charlie Chaplin mustache, and goose-around the room, ranting nonsense?
Did your computer declare all non-Microsoft devices in your house to be "racially impure?"
Did your computer invade Poland? France? Bomb England?
Did Tom Cruise make a half-assed effort to assassinate your computer?
Thank you, for participating in this Windows 7 early experiences survey.
Slightly unfortunate (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Long Mode is so overrated (Score:4, Funny)
You know, there have been quite a lot of digital STDs over the years. Might want to think again about using protected mode.
Re:All that trouble... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:All that trouble... (Score:5, Funny)
iTunes won't work right in Windows XP x64, while it works great in Windows 7.
Don't worry, I'm sure that will be fixed by the final release. :)
Re:Released to public after delay? (Score:5, Funny)
....oh, never mind. Make up your own joke.
Re:Still no virtual desktop (Score:3, Funny)
[citation needed]
Re:All that trouble... (Score:2, Funny)
Ok, but that doesn't explain why companies like Create dropped support for older products and created new ones to sell to the unsuspecting public. i.e. no drivers for the webcam (ironically?) called Vista to work under Vista but sure enough new MSVista compatible webcams came out shortly after.
Clearly they had access to the code base, but they chose to sell another product rather than support existing customers.
Re:Unsupported browser? (Score:4, Funny)
you can't imagine why they would do that? LOL!
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It seems you are not familiar with sarcasm [merriam-webster.com]. Are you new here?
Re:Long Mode is so overrated (Score:3, Funny)
64 is larger than 32, and thus 64-bit equates to "better"
Not just "better", "twice as better"
Re:Why 32-bit? (Score:3, Funny)
Go to "System" -> "Administration" -> "Create a USB startup disk"
Oh, oops, forgot this was Windows we were talking about... ;)
Re:I don't get it (Score:1, Funny)
Re:All that trouble... (Score:1, Funny)
I can't see fire or the wheel in your foreseeable future.
Re:All that trouble... (Score:3, Funny)
Which part of "need to take control of hardware in a way that Windows will not allow" did you miss in your haste to illuminate the world?
Re:All that trouble... (Score:2, Funny)
So far, I've tested the following apps to work perfectly in Windows 7:
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0 (with AdBlock, Flash, and Acrobat Reader)
- Acrobat Reader 9
- GIMP 2.6
- OpenOffice 3
- iTunes (Vista x64)
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I can't emphasize enough how interesting all of this is---achieving such a wide range of software to work, and perfectly at that, is no small feat for any OS vendor, let alone MS.
I'm seriously considering now switching my notebook from 64bit ubuntu 8.10 to windows 7 beta.