Windows 7 Beta download will be available before January 5th

Windows 7 Beta download will be available before January 5th

committed to database on December 21, 2008 at 3:18 am Eastern Standard Time


Ed Bott, a good friend of mine, recently predicted that Windows 7 Beta bits are going to be publicly unveiled on January 13, during CES. Some late night scrounging around revealed that Windows 7 could be available sooner — via download links slipped into the next Microsoft Action Pack Subscription quarterly update kit, which starts shipping January 5, 2009. Word internally is that the beta build was already baked a while ago, we just have to be patient.
Update (Dec 23): Microsoft has removed all mention of Windows 7 Beta.


Screenshot of MAPS kit contents. The superscript 5 means “download only”. No DVDs


Windows 7 Beta download will be available before January 5th - Within Windows

The sooner the better.

I can't wait to get my key so I can activate 7.

I can't wait for the mail to come in....

lucky john....
just lucky
he get a brand new sparkling dvd

with a magical OS called Windows 7
and magical paper that can activate the the magical OS...lol

luck, me arse - it cost me nearly 50 quid, arrrrgh!

but hey you got stuff that was more worth than what you paid...
i remember the clases were in the hundreds
that to me is good deal...lol

Yeah, I got purely lucky in terms of the 'door' prize - only 5 per section were chosen out of at *minimum* 50 participants per section. Of course, it required you to complete the surveys, so that could have been as low as 25 - but still I lucked out well.

I was the next to last winner chosen, and it was a choice between those classes and a combo cam/mouse package. It wasn't hard to see where the value lay

LMAO

+1 on the choosing the classes ....

Well, actually, that is a thing of interest too - I am a double major (Comp Sci and Math) and the last set of the classes featured a class on F# - a new programming language that is in development by M$ that is 100% interoperable with .NET and all the other VS languages, that is written *specifically* for Mathematics calculations and computations. Naturally, that is where I *planned* on ending the day from the moment I saw the agenda.

BTW - F# friggin rocks. It should be getting barely prevalent enough for me to do my complete Masters thesis on it for use in the Financial world, and seeing as I want to get into Financial Engineering, this could not have come at a better time....