Windows 7 Beta download will be available before January 5th

    Windows 7 Beta download will be available before January 5th


    Posted: 29 Dec 2008



    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
    darkassain's Avatar Posted By: darkassain
    29 Dec 2008



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    The sooner the better. :)
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    I can't wait to get my key so I can activate 7.
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    I can't wait for the mail to come in....
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       #4

    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
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    luck, me arse - it cost me nearly 50 quid, arrrrgh!
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       #6

    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
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    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
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    LMAO

    +1 on the choosing the classes ....
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    Windows 11 21H2 Current build
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    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....
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