Windows 7 download is back
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx
Let us hope download finishes now. Planning on reformating computer and having it as primary OS..hope I do not regret.
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littleguru
<3 Seattle
You know that this is a beta product, right? It might hang or blue screen from time to time... depending on the drivers and other probable bugs. Just to set your expectations right.
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Did I sound noobishlittleguru said:You know that this is a beta product, right? It might hang or blue screen from time to time... depending on the drivers and other probable bugs. Just to set your expectations right.
. Been playing with
beta software long enough (and roaming the forum long enough to know that you are one of the spies who had training @ MSFT)....but I find that many companies these days just push half baked products out in hope that people will do the testing for them. Hope
this is not one such case.
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Charles
Welcome Change
Most definitely not the case. This beta is one of the most solid I've ever used. That said, littleguru's point is only that you shouldn't expect it to be perfect and that bugs most likely lurk inside it...bugfreecode said:
Did I sound noobishlittleguru said:*snip*. Been playing with beta software long enough (and roaming the forum long enough to know that you are one of the spies who had training @ MSFT)....but
I find that many companies these days just push half baked products out in hope that people will do the testing for them. Hope this is not one such case.
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It's not a good idea to make a time-bombed OS beta (expires August) your primary OS.
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brian.shapiro
things go on as always
Isn't the expiration timed so another release will be out by then?joechung said:It's not a good idea to make a time-bombed OS beta (expires August) your primary OS.
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Maybe. Maybe not. I would find out for certain before I made a time-bombed beta my primary OS.brian.shapiro said:
Isn't the expiration timed so another release will be out by then?joechung said:*snip*
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Ix
Missed it by that much...
Went out and bought a new WD raptor so I could keep my existing Vista OS and still setup W7 on the same system setup I'm currently used to. Yesterday was a mess, but MS really pulled it together today.
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Yep, I installed 7 on a spare hard drive I had. If I need to go back to Vista it's just a matter of switching the SATA cables. I've encountered a couple bugs already too, so I'm glad I didn't wipe out Vista. No show stoppers, but you never know. I am really impressed with how fast it returned from sleep. Vista would take about 8-10 seconds. On the same machine 7 took under 1 second.Ix said:Went out and bought a new WD raptor so I could keep my existing Vista OS and still setup W7 on the same system setup I'm currently used to. Yesterday was a mess, but MS really pulled it together today.
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Heywood_J
Trust me, I'm from the Internets
Downloaded Windows 7 x64. But can't get interested enough to actually install it. Been running Vista x64 for the past 9 months and it's just fine.
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CannotResolveSymbol
Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?
Post deleted: I totally meant to post this in the Windows 7 first impressions thread... moved here.Heywood_J said:Downloaded Windows 7 x64. But can't get interested enough to actually install it. Been running Vista x64 for the past 9 months and it's just fine.
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rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure
One problem I have been having is the fact that Opera constantly crashes on 7. Has anyone else had this issue? It is kind of annoying.
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