Windows 7 Beta

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Is anyone else using this other than myself and Adam.M?

I am actually going to buy this so far things i can point out that are an improvement are

Fastest windows yet (possibly even as fast as mac & Ubuntu for responsiveness and general operations)
Most stable (and its only the first public beta)
and it looks darn good.

So yeah even if it costs like £450 like vista did i shall buy it as its great and i get a 40% discount anyways :D

[MDV]

Where can I get it, and how can I install it without formating?

[MDV]

Sratch that, I'll wait till I know for sure that it works with what I need it to.

[dave_mc]

might be worth saving that £450 for your house deposit...

[_tom_]

Yeah my mates just installed it and said its way better than Vista. I would give it a go, but I cant be arsed with backing up everything, formatting then reinstalling.

[JDC]

Where can I get it, and how can I install it without formating?

MDV you need a virtual machine, so you can run an OS in a window on your desktop

Sun do a completely free one, I think it's called virtual box or something like that

you also need a lot of ram since you'll be running 2 operating systems at the same time

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might be worth saving that £450 for your house deposit...

This wont be coming out until the back end of this year i arent that supid :P

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Where can I get it, and how can I install it without formating?

you can get it from

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

And theres no need to format

i just backed up and did the upgrade took about 30 mins in total

[WezV]

ok so vista is clearly a pile of poo... but it does really piss me off that this seems to be the opposite... basically they advertised vista based on its features - all of which made it a cumbersome beast... now they advertise this based on its lack of features and speed.  to me thats a clear admission that vista was a flawed product

i think all us vista users deserve a free upgrade ;)

i might try the beta - but before i do,  is it working with things like itunes?

[Will]

I don't think vista is that bad, I have been using 'basic' for a while, which actually seems faster on file transfers than 64 bit home premium and a faster computer :?

I will be happy to try this though, what are the minimum spec requirements for it?

edit: just looked it up, and it seems it would be a very good match to a netbook, which I have been looking into :)

[_tom_]

Vista is great for me as well, I've never really understood all the complaints.

[indysmith]

I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. What is the point?
I can't see how it's any different to Vista in anything other than a couple of non-important superficial thing (ugly new taskbar for example).
The killer for me is that it still uses approx. 500MB of RAM whilst seemingly idle. I've tested XP, Vista and 7 over the last few weeks on the same machine, and the fact of the matter is that XP runs RIDICULOUSLY faster, is more compatible, more stable (yeah I really think it is - the only one that hasn't crashed on me), and it does anything I need it to. Vista and 7 have a better installation process (both identical btw), but that's about it.
I know that Windows 7 is still only in very early BETA stages (although they have been working on it for >6 years now), but all this marketing claiming that it's the anti-Vista is bullshiteeee, pure and simple. It's Vista's evil twin, albeit minus some of the features.

[WezV]

Vista's not bad if you have the spec to run it or if you have all its features turned off. 

Sadly i happened to buy a £500 dell the week after vista was released so thats what it came with, and i think it was a special deal that they were offering the home premium edition free... in reality i should have opted for XP or vista basic since a low-mid priced dell really shouldnt have been sold with the premium version...the minimum spec bit was always optimistic

i am speaking as someone who used to build and mod PC's but has really left that all behind to focus on guitar stuff instead ;)  so a lot of what i knew has been pushed out by more important stuff -  certainly no computer expert anymore

[Philly Q]

I don't keep up with this stuff, I'm still using XP, but Vista seems to have only been around for 5 minutes. 

From my layman's perspective, the rapid appearance of Windows 7 seems to be an unspoken admission that Vista is seriously flawed (or it least that it's perceived to be).

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ok so vista is clearly a pile of poo... but it does really piss me off that this seems to be the opposite... basically they advertised vista based on its features - all of which made it a cumbersome beast... now they advertise this based on its lack of features and speed.  to me thats a clear admission that vista was a flawed product

i think all us vista users deserve a free upgrade ;)

i might try the beta - but before i do,  is it working with things like itunes?

so far it works with everything that works on vista & xp that ive tried so i shouldnt see itunes being a problem