Desperate beta testers brought down Microsoft's Windows 7 download page yesterday for about two hours.
Only Microsoft Developer Network members and TechNet members were offered keys, but Microsoft still had to make some changes to keep the site up and running. The MSDN blog said "systems are having trouble keeping up" and thanked people for their patience.
The Release Candidate code will be available to the great unwashed public from 5 May.
Windows 7 Server is also available for testing.
Tip of the hat to Ed Bott, who reckoned the crash was caused by an SQL database falling over thanks to too many requests. The site got a week's traffic in less than hour.
It emerged yesterday that the final code is due for release in autumn 2009.
Hi there
That's why I won't bother (certainly not for several days if at all)as the version I've got seems to pass all validity checks.
Beta keys also work fine.
Windows update gave me Office 2007 SP2 with no problem so everything is Kosher with the "leaked" 7100 builds provided the hashes are the same as the "Real one's".
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Custom built, several laptops HP/ASUS OS: Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers CPU: Intel i7 Intel i5 Memory: 8GB, 16GB Graphics Card: On Motherboard Sound Card: Realtek HD audio Monitor(s) Displays: Apple Cinema display, Samsung LCD Screen Resolution: 1920 X 1080 Mouse: Toshiba wireless laser Hard Drives: 4 X 1TB SATA Internet Speed: > 20MB up
in my case i found a torrent with almost 7-8 thousand seeds 2 days ago (and i bet that it's even more of them in this moment). and yes, the Beta key works as well...
System Manufacturer/Model Number: Apple Mac Pro OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ @2.7 GHz Memory: 2GB DDR2-667 Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 7200GS 256MB Sound Card: Realtek Monitor(s) Displays: BenQ FP222Wa 22" Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 @ 60Hz Keyboard: Apple Mouse: Apple Hard Drives: 320 GB Internet Speed: 5 Mb/s Other Info: (I hate Intel CPUs, *changes it with an AMD Processor* mwuhaha; geez, now i have to change the kernel too...)
Hehe, I've bought a PC just for testing purposes. And I like it! ^^
actually not really since most of the testers out there usually have gotten it from torrents
but then again..
but what is confusing is that he does not go into specific as what load MS is seeing...
saying that its more than a week does not say much...
System Manufacturer/Model Number: Tx2500z Tablet Pc/Homemade Server OS: Windows 7 Ult x64(x2), HomePrem x32(x4), Server 08 (+VM), 08 R2 (VM) , SuSe 11.2 (VM), XP 32 (VM) CPU: Turion X2 ultra (oh well came with laptop)/P4 @3.2 (yes P4) Motherboard: IDK HP Motherboard / Intel DG965SS Memory: OCZ Dual Channel 4GB kit/ 1gb Dual Channel Graphics Card: HD 3200 graphics /GMA x3100 (yay for intergrated!!) Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio(mic working, well sort of)/Siig IC-70012 Monitor(s) Displays: built-in Hp 12" laptop screen/ Acer 19" Screen Resolution: 1280x800 /1440x900 Mouse: Logi MX Rev. /MS Wheel Optical 1.1A /Logitech Optical Mouse Cooling: All Air Cooled Internet Speed: College baby but its still routed through vpn to 1536k... Other Info: love my wacom pen and pressure sensitivity...
wished it worked in 7, SUSE for that matter though
On the MSDN subscriber's download site, the "Alternate Download Site" proved very useful, even on that first day. I was able to download both the x86 and x64 flavors in just a few hours using the special downloader they required me to install. It was like a baby Bit Torrent with four connections to four different servers for each flavor all at once. I'm glad I noticed that alternate link.
System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dilithium Computers/Engineering (Myself) Star date 42.739285.5432.9 OS: Win7 Ultimate x64 on Desktop / Win7 Ultimate x86 on laptop / Win7 x86 Starter on Netbook CPU: AMD Phenom 965 X4 3.4Ghz cpu Black Edition Motherboard: Gigabyte 790XT Memory: 12 Gb DDR3 Graphics Card: Nvidea Gforce GTX 470 Sound Card: Onboard Realtek hi-fi Monitor(s) Displays: Lg 3D led 23" Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Keyboard: Logitech wireless K350 Mouse: Inferno gaming mouse PSU: OCZ 700W GameXstream Case: Artec 10000 Cooling: On board + many case fans Hard Drives: Loads maxstore sata 1 & 2/ loads of partitions + 1Tb Hitachi sata 2. 256Gb Crucial ssd. Internet Speed: Talk talk. 10Mb Other Info: My PC was hand built with matchsticks. xbox 360 controller. Printers,fax.........
Hi all..
After a recent update, I found that 3 of my PCs running Windows 7 had Avira reporting a virus ( C:\Users\User\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\cmd.exe)
One of them , I also caught it being reported WHILE the update was being installed.
isn't this weird??
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