Comments on: Want the Windows 7 Beta? Act Fast!

By: warren

warren — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:17:10 +0000

Thanks for the link. I downloaded the iso overnite. Actually, I suddenly woke up at 2 am and couldn’t go back to sleep. I had plenty of bandwidth; Over 10 mbits down so it only took 40 mins.

I think I’ll install on the system I was planning to build as a dvr. The box will have an Athlon 64 3200+ cpu, a gig of ram, a basic nvidia 6200, 128 meg pci-e video card. I plan to install a hauppauge 150 tuner card.

If win7 beta can work with this system, I’ll definitely get win 7 when it comes out.

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:37:52 +0000

@Michael Galli: No, it was just poor browser support for other platforms. I’d already been through three, but I found one that worked in time. Your hate was not necessary.

By: Q Master

Q Master — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:57:45 +0000

I don’t think is quite ready yet so you have time to waste go ahead and try it but from my experience is not ready yet. So not to think I’m just talking to have something to do here below the full story.

When it came up earlier this month I’ve downloaded it and I’ve burned the iso. Then grabbed my Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600 that runs vista and ran XP prior to Vista. I whipped one the two drives off. I boot up from the DVD and all went thru fine till the first reboot after install, the one that’s finalizing the install. It died on me with BSOD.

And I repeat this is on a laptop that’s currently running vista. I tried to locate the dump file tosee what’s happening but no luck – I won’t burn much of my time with it.

By: Michael Galli

Michael Galli — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:45:08 +0000

@Steven Fisher: I dont think thats fair to Microsoft or representative of the program they have rolled out. To wit; when the Beta first came out and they were slammed and IE 8 has no built in d/l manager, they pulled it, repackaged it with AKAMI d/l manager and stramlined the process. Plus, its a freaking BETA. Not Gamma, not RC, not RC1 or even 2.

It would be nice if people did SOME amount of research and tried to be as objective as possible before making posts bashing people and companies. Im not an employee of MSFT, or Apple, Im a ‘tech “expert” ‘ like everybody else. One thing I resolved to change in 2009 was to quit being Negative and to start taking the power of my words and print seriously.

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:40:26 +0000

I’ve been trying to download it for a few days now, but the website just shows a spinner and stays stuck forever. Typical Microsoft.