How to Get Your Windows 7 Beta 1 on Friday

icoola77 · 09 Jan 2009

" And remember—this is just a preview. There's more to come."

I wonder what they mean by that, cause i think they said this build is feature complete, so what else if anything could they be adding later?

Brink · 09 Jan 2009

WinFan said:

Hey all,

None of the links posted are working now; they just redirect to the windows site. The technet has changed to now just saying "Windows Beta coming soon" and a link to the windows 7 site which still says its due this afternoon.

Could you possible post the url's you are currently using to get the iso?

Cheers from a very frustrated person,

See the TIP box on the first page for the new download links.

Airbot · 09 Jan 2009

2.5 million, not 12.5

Lebon14 · 09 Jan 2009

Ow. The serials will only be available next week... awww

linuzo · 09 Jan 2009

icoola77 said:

" And remember—this is just a preview. There's more to come."

I wonder what they mean by that, cause i think they said this build is feature complete, so what else if anything could they be adding later?

The stuff that will break it.

djhallucn8 · 09 Jan 2009

BIGGRIMTIM said:

Looks like keys are coming ouy next week.

"Product Keys
Product keys for this release will be available next week. A product key is not required to install and use the release."

Message right from Microsoft.

Well I think this was worth mentioning before beta 1 was to be released, I think M$ is dropping the ball on this folks.

SIW2 · 09 Jan 2009

6 pm PST ? My d/l should have just about finished by then .

SIW2

MrUnderhill · 09 Jan 2009

yah stand by for yet another series of epic crashes.
today reminded me all to much of the final showdown on the movie "Hackers" and the epic denial of service they pulled to crash the big bad mega server.

WinFan · 09 Jan 2009

Brink said:

See the TIP box on the first page for the new download links.

What is a TIP box?

Thanks!

dba137 · 09 Jan 2009

No doubt MS dropped the ball on this one, if they had mentioned this before today, no one would be frantically refreshing and holding back the servers trying to get the 2.5 million keys.

People would download it with ease, the only reason everyone is downloading it RIGHT NOW is because they thought that the keys will be released alongside it.

EDIT: and I WOULD NOT have spent my day on the internet trying to get a stupid key.