Author Topic: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!) (Read 108735 times)

justice · « **Reply #25 on:** January 09, 2009, 08:53 AM »

Best just stick with the usual sources like ars technica etc, anyone can write up an opinion.

cmpm · « **Reply #26 on:** January 09, 2009, 08:59 AM »

W7 seems to be pushing windows live.
Without it you don't get a few things.
Like email or picture program and a couple others .
From what I've seen so far.

Of course there are many other alternatives.
For those who know.
But the average user who does not explore other options,
they will most likely go with windows live.
I'm pretty sure when the full release is out,
that when installing,
the live options will come up for installation.

I saw somewhere, I forget now,
that you can put your whole system in their live service.

PPLandry · « **Reply #27 on:** January 09, 2009, 10:09 AM »

the link: http://www.microsoft...t/windows/windows-7/

is currently giving a redirection loop: a->b->a->b...

Edvard · « **Reply #28 on:** January 09, 2009, 10:22 AM »

Ok, I give up. How am I supposed to download the thing?
I can't find a link anywhere.

justice · « **Reply #29 on:** January 09, 2009, 10:25 AM »

~~link isn't up yet AFAIK~~ $:-\$
~~Technew evaluation link - seems to go somewhere over the coarse of minutes~~well i cant get through it redirects to an error page

Edvard · « **Reply #30 on:** January 09, 2009, 10:46 AM »

"Server is too busy"

cmpm · « **Reply #31 on:** January 09, 2009, 11:40 AM »

http://technet.micro...center/dd353205.aspx

f0dder · « **Reply #32 on:** January 09, 2009, 11:41 AM »

The nyud.net link keeps redirecting, whereas the direct link works just fine for me - but there's no download link...

EDIT: thanks for that link, cmpm, unfortunately it gives Server Too Busy when trying to download - geez. They should distribute with bittorrent tech

Hirudin · « **Reply #33 on:** January 09, 2009, 12:33 PM »

http://technet.micro...center/dd353205.aspx
-cmpm (January 09, 2009, 11:40 AM)

Thanks for the link! I got this far...
Screenshot - 1_9_2009 , 11_31_25 AM.png

Is that where you stopped as well f0dder?

f0dder · « **Reply #34 on:** January 09, 2009, 12:43 PM »

Hirudin: nope, cmpm's link got me to a "Welcome to the Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview Program" page with a bunch of text I didn't read, and two dropdown-list + go-buttons for choosing language for downloading x32 and x64 versions. Clicking the go button got me the server too busy error.

Darwin · « **Reply #35 on:** January 09, 2009, 12:47 PM »

At some point FF's auto refesh got me to a login page (from the download link at the page cmpm directed us to). I logged in... to a Server Busy mesage

Hirudin · « **Reply #36 on:** January 09, 2009, 12:50 PM »

Oh cool! I got all the way to the registration page! At some point they even sent me a "confirm this is your address" e-mail.

What I did was logged in over at live.com, because the first time it looked like it was going to hang there.

I actually got a different error the second time I tried, and it actually had the words "productkeys" in it... exciting!
After hitting continue I either get the screenshot I posted above, or this...

windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
Which apparently has some secure and some nonsecure items, it only stays up for a second, at which point it changes to this...
Screenshot - 1_9_2009 , 11_51_21 AM.png

Darwin · « **Reply #37 on:** January 09, 2009, 01:26 PM »

One thing of interest to note is that a 32-bit version of the beta is available. I *thought* that Win7 wasn't going to sihp in a 32-bit flavour (or am I thinking of the next version of Server 2008?).

Darwin · « **Reply #38 on:** January 09, 2009, 02:01 PM »

Well... noon here on the wet coast (ie in the Pacific Time Zone) and no sign of a download link on the Win 7 page... yet!

Dormouse · « **Reply #39 on:** January 09, 2009, 02:03 PM »

I thought I saw 3pm mentioned somewhere.

fenixproductions · « **Reply #40 on:** January 09, 2009, 02:05 PM »

Almost 2h of trying to get there. Server is still too busy for me

PS. Mozilla did better with Firefox Download Day.

Darwin · « **Reply #41 on:** January 09, 2009, 02:08 PM »

I thought I saw 3pm mentioned somewhere.
-Dormouse (January 09, 2009, 02:03 PM)

First I've heard of it... midnight last night was posted in quite a few places yesterday (erroneously it turns out, obviously).

Come back the afternoon of January 9

is pretty vague... I had *hoped* it meant 12 pm PST...

fenixproductions · « **Reply #42 on:** January 09, 2009, 02:42 PM »

It looks like there is nothing on:
http://technet.micro...center/dd353205.aspx

Either they stopped due to server problems or counter got 2.5M.

Darwin · « **Reply #43 on:** January 09, 2009, 02:52 PM »

It looks like there is nothing on:
http://technet.micro...center/dd353205.aspx

Either they stopped due to server problems or counter got 2.5M.
-fenixproductions (January 09, 2009, 02:42 PM)

I just checked and got:

Win7 betsa.png

fenixproductions · « **Reply #44 on:** January 09, 2009, 03:47 PM »

2Darwin
Previously this page offered download links with possibility to choose versions according to language and 32/64 bits.

Darwin · « **Reply #45 on:** January 09, 2009, 04:12 PM »

2Darwin
Previously this page offered download links with possibility to choose versions according to language and 32/64 bits.
-fenixproductions (January 09, 2009, 03:47 PM)

Ah yes, you're right I was monitoring that page myself. I was thinking that maybe the beta coming soon notice meant that they were finally ready to start rolling it out...

Hirudin · « **Reply #46 on:** January 09, 2009, 04:37 PM »

I hope the 2.5 million copies haven't been downloaded... I doubt that many people got through that server mess.

If they think they're serving 2.5 million ~3gb downloads I hope they're prepared.
http://www.techcrunc...-a-bad-black-friday/

Darwin · « **Reply #47 on:** January 09, 2009, 04:43 PM »

According to this Lifehacker article, the whole thing has been put on hold while MS gets its server ready to dea with demand...

f0dder · « **Reply #48 on:** January 09, 2009, 05:36 PM »

According to this Lifehacker article, the whole thing has been put on hold while MS gets its server ready to dea with demand...
-Darwin (January 09, 2009, 04:43 PM)

*grin*

Again, the silly-heads should use .torrents for distribution. Of course the sheer amount of hits trying to get the .torrent file would be massive as well, but still...

Hirudin · « **Reply #49 on:** January 09, 2009, 06:17 PM »

Yeah, bittorrent is the way to go for files like these. Microsoft would have to release some kind of small "ISO checker" program that people could download to verify that the torrent is complete/legitimate after it's finished downloading.

Actually, I wish MS would release something like this for all their CDs. I really want a Vista w/ SP1 ISO (since slipstreaming isn't supported any more) but I can't find anyone with a real (pressed) copy and I don't trust non-official torrents for software I've actually paid for.

The page now says:

Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal -- we’re in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We’re sorry for the delay and we’ll re-post the Beta as soon as we can ensure a quality download experience.