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Microsoft Windows 7Microsoft Windows 7 beta is finally here.
Ah, the Microsoft Windows 7 beta 1
“7000” series build has leaked at
last. As expected, it has happened days before its expected official
introduction sometime between the 5th of 13th of January, 2009. It was only a few days ago that I
wrote about how “Windows 7
beta release speculation continues”, then exclaimed that a
lot of “Windows 7
beta 1 download mania wants to start”, following it up with a
warning to “Watch
out for fake Microsoft Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 torrents!” -
although a
"real" torrent, from leaked pirate sources, now seems to be
available. We learnt that the expected ISO name
of the leaked Microsoft Windows 7
beta 1 ISO torrent would be
“7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso”,
amongst other
details. We also know that the file size is
supposed to be:
2618793984 bytes (2.44 GB) and the MD5 Checksum Hash is supposed to be:
f9dce6ebd0a63930b44d8ae802b63825. While I won’t give you any
direct links to the torrent sites
where you can either see the peers and seeds grow and grow, or chance
your luck
at downloading the 2.43GB file yourself, you’ll find plenty
of information on
just that at MyDigitalLife and other sites, all of which
don’t seem to flinch
for a second in giving you direct download links.
Officially, Microsoft must be very
annoyed, but unofficially
they likely expected it to happen sooner rather than later, are
presumably
happy for all the news and buzz, and are already busy getting plenty of
new
usage data for analysis. Given the pretty stellar performance
of the 6801 and 6956
“pre-betas”, Microsoft Windows 7 seems to fulfill Steve
Ballmer’s promise of being a
vastly better Vista, with XP-like performance and memory requirements
yet with
all the graphical eye candy – and more besides –
that If only Windows Vista had been like Microsoft Windows 7 is today, at this still early beta stage, the “wow” truly would have started “now”, which is now over two years ago, when you look at the November 30, 2006 “Vista Business” release, which followed by the general Vista release in late January, 2007.
But everyone seems certain that it is, so if you’re dead keen to get your hands on Microsoft Windows 7 beta 1 and try it out right now, there are means and ways to do just that. But if you’re not, then just sit tight and wait for the official release, and that would certainly be Microsoft’s official advice and position. It may still be a different build yet, although that is unlikely, but at least an official build is effectively guaranteed of being spyware and malware free – unless you think Windows itself is spyware and malware, of course, and a few Mac and Linux users certainly do think that. But for the rest of the Windows using world, the dawn of the Microsoft Windows 7 era is finally about to start, and at least for the next several months, Microsoft’s latest and greatest will be free to download and use, and your feedback could actually still shape the final product. The official beta 1 is expected to be even more solid than the 6801 and 6956 builds that preceded it, so excitement is understandably high. But given that both beta and RTM software comes with no guarantees anyway, and that consumers today are well used to using beta products for months, if not years on end, chances are that plenty of people won’t be waiting until possibly November 2009 for Microsoft Windows 7 to launch, but will jump on board right away and see if Microsoft Windows 7 leads to a Microsoft-esque computing heaven! Plenty of XP upgrades could soon happen, at least in consumer homes, and speculation will continue over just when Microsoft will release beta 2, the RC release candidate, and then the RTM (release to manufacturing) final gold version - and whether all of that will happen sooner rather than later. A lot will clearly depend on just how good the official beta 1 version of Microsoft Windows 7 turns out to be, any future betas (if still planned, apparently there will only be one), and then the release candidate itself. Good luck whatever you decide to do, and whichever OS you decide is for you.
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