should i buy 7 when it comes?
If it's good and you don't want to get into trouble with M$ or the law: Yes
I think MS have temporarily shut off their servers due to high demand, not sure when they'll be back up for download though, wouldn't mind trying it myself, but I don't have a spare harddrive. 
You could always run it in Virtual PC
Although im waiting to get another Sata hard drive so i can try it out "properly"
Well the beta is available until August, so I got some time to get another HDD lol
speaking of torrents can anyone confirm that the 32 bit winbeta repack is the same iso as the one ms has on their servers?
i mean someone whos actually md5ed them not heard it somewhere
i mean someone whos actually md5ed them not heard it somewhere
Anyone got an alternative link for the x64 one? Can't seem to get the M$ one to work at all..
I have the key, just not the ISO
EDIT - NVM, got it
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I have the key, just not the ISO
EDIT - NVM, got it
.Where do I get the key and find a working download link?
Going to put this on my old hard drive which is slowly failing lol.
Going to put this on my old hard drive which is slowly failing lol.
Woah, MS are really trying hard to lose their reputation of making stable, reliable software. Not touching anything beta from them any time soon.
eh? its a beta its clearly marked as beta software costs nothing and the patch came out before the beta was released to the public so whats your point?
My point is that causing data corruption is about the worst thing that any software can do to a system and not even a beta released to the public should have any of these type of bugs. Sure, it can happen, but when it does, my trust in the capability of the company that messed up falls dramatically.
which is why the hotfix was finalised before they released the _beta_... jesus if you want to critizise microsoft at least keep your critique away from lerts like logical fallacies
Consider it a nightly linux kernel build. Those also sometimes eat your partition table. That's what you get for running cutting edge builds.
I would understand if this was the RC, but as it is I can't see your point.
Vain
I would understand if this was the RC, but as it is I can't see your point.
Vain
edit: irrelevant.
I didn't realize that the fix was out before the public release. But still, I spent two days recovering data... No matter how you but it, data corruption is not acceptable for a public release. I mean my impression of Win7 is still better the BSODware that was Vista upon release but at least that was ATI/Nvidia's fault, not MS themselves.
And btw I consider myself an MS fanboi, XP is a lot more stable than anything from OSS or Apple but Win7 just seems to be backwards in terms of quality. I can accept all kinds of bugs but not data corruption.
im sorry but thats completely your own fault for trying out a beta of an os letting it loose on your data and not even reading any of the w7 news channels eg here (posted a week before the public beta came out)
http://windows7news.com/2009/0 ... -7-beta-damages-some-mp3/
with the hotfix "leaking" out to the public a day before the jan 9th (technically more like jan 10th) release
http://windows7news.com/2009/0 ... beta-patch-fixes-mp3-bug/
as dt said its the os' job to do file io and with a beta you must expect anything and everything to go wrong on that end
and as vain said as far as potential major beta bugs go thats nothing
the point of releasing a beta is not to give users a chance to try out the os for themselfs but to get a huge installbase of people wholl find bugs (fully aware that there will be bugs in any form from complete showstoppers to minor annoyances)
as far as backwards in quality is concerend: its not supposed to be a quality release
its called beta 1 for a reason feature complete but full of bugs
on a sidenote in case you havent played "pandemic 2" try it look at my avatar and consider yourself compared to madagascar
http://windows7news.com/2009/0 ... -7-beta-damages-some-mp3/
with the hotfix "leaking" out to the public a day before the jan 9th (technically more like jan 10th) release
http://windows7news.com/2009/0 ... beta-patch-fixes-mp3-bug/
as dt said its the os' job to do file io and with a beta you must expect anything and everything to go wrong on that end
and as vain said as far as potential major beta bugs go thats nothing
the point of releasing a beta is not to give users a chance to try out the os for themselfs but to get a huge installbase of people wholl find bugs (fully aware that there will be bugs in any form from complete showstoppers to minor annoyances)
as far as backwards in quality is concerend: its not supposed to be a quality release
its called beta 1 for a reason feature complete but full of bugs
on a sidenote in case you havent played "pandemic 2" try it look at my avatar and consider yourself compared to madagascar
From what I understand:
Windows Vista = Windows ME;
Windows XP = Windows 98 SE;
Windows 7 = Windows XP; (Or at lest they hope it will.)
As of right now, I would stick with Windows 98 SE (Windows XP) at least until Windows XP (Windows 7) gets it's first service pack, and it starts getting good, and drop Windows ME (Windows Vista) like it's hot because it sucks and some day soon Microsoft will realize this and it will not be an issue anymore.
Windows Vista = Windows ME;
Windows XP = Windows 98 SE;
Windows 7 = Windows XP; (Or at lest they hope it will.)
As of right now, I would stick with Windows 98 SE (Windows XP) at least until Windows XP (Windows 7) gets it's first service pack, and it starts getting good, and drop Windows ME (Windows Vista) like it's hot because it sucks and some day soon Microsoft will realize this and it will not be an issue anymore.
Could some one provide a working link to download Windows 7 please. The Microsoft isn't working for me either.
I have a key but need a link to the 32 bit version.
If people here have downloaded both the 32 bit version and the 64 bit version, maybe they could upload them as a torrent so we can download them and we then know that they work.
I have a key but need a link to the 32 bit version.
If people here have downloaded both the 32 bit version and the 64 bit version, maybe they could upload them as a torrent so we can download them and we then know that they work.
Best place is the Microsoft site
32 bits:
http://www.microsoft.com/downl ... a242b7&displaylang=en
64 bits:
http://www.microsoft.com/downl ... 55626d&DisplayLang=en
Running it in a VM now (I don't have another HDD), and it looks nice enough. I didn't even want to install it on a partition in case it ruins my entire system
It does just seem like Vista with a new theme though. I know a VM won't give a true measure of performance, but it's only slightly faster. It is starting to look a bit more "OSX"-y though, with the "seamless" toolbar and all that crap. It doesn't even look that good
It does just seem like Vista with a new theme though. I know a VM won't give a true measure of performance, but it's only slightly faster. It is starting to look a bit more "OSX"-y though, with the "seamless" toolbar and all that crap. It doesn't even look that good
Can someone upload the 32 bit version please. Put it as a torrent so the rest of us can get it aswell please. Wont to try it as I have a spare hard drive to install it on.
Yeah could someone put the 64 Bit version one up too? It won't start downloading for me.
Actually Vista is more like XP. XP sucked at first too. Everyone was going on how you should stay with Windows 98SE back when XP was new. And just like with XP, Vista now works fine after they got some updates done and hardware manufacturers started making some proper drivers.
Also Windows 7 is more like a service pack for Vista. They just changed the name because Vistas reputation is ruined and silly people still think it's the same bag of hurt as it was a 2 years ago.
If you're running Vista you can use the built in disc management to repartition your existing drive and create a new partition where you can install a second OS. Not sure how happy Windows 7 will be to co-exist with Vista it might mess up Vistas version of the MBR (called something else but I forget what) and you might have trouble if/when you want to remove Windows 7 from your machine.
Otherwise if you have XP you'll need a copy of a partitioning software to safely partition your exising hard drive.
Just check out some pirate sites (don't shoot me, no links
), it's legal to download them without a crack. When I got mine there was both a 32 bit and 64 bit available, with decent ratios.I wouldn't chance putting 7 on the same HDD as anything important (like, an OS), as it has given a fair few people problems formatting and corrupting the HDD it's put on. Safest is a new, clean HDD or a VM
Wait... what is the point in Windows 7?
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