Anyone download the Windows7 Beta yet?

[Jand3rson]

The Windows7 Beta is all over the torrent sites, and people are downloading it left and right, and giving it pretty good reviews, so far. It's being more and more hinted at that Microsoft "leaked" the OS onto the web, which seems believable. I'm downloading it right now, I might do a dual-boot install on my laptop and play around with it.

[tofubento]

let me know what you think...I have not been happy with current OS...thinking of swapping out to something else...or go back to old skool windows LOL

[daniel]

i've been running the prebeta for a while now as my only OS. i love it.

[Gooch]

Interesting...I would like to hear more about this. I may have to do a dual boot also.

[James Crivellone]

Works great, and the gui is a hell of a lot faster then Vista, going to use it as my primary OS from now on.

[TwoJ's]

lol, I'm behind the times with XP on my PC still.

[Jand3rson]

Works great, and the gui is a hell of a lot faster then Vista, going to use it as my primary OS from now on.

James, how is it when it comes to compatability? Things like Photoshop, Winamp, FF, etc. work alright?

[george graves]

Rats, I have applications that will never run on it. And I think it's too bloated for my older laptop.

[TwoJ's]

I'd be up to try it if I knew that the Sony Digital Voice Editor program I have to use for work would run on it. Doubt it though.

I have a good family friend at Microsoft, I'll see if I can just get a copy.

[george graves]

I bet you it will run most anything. I just I have demanding video and film editing applications that don't play nice - so you always run the OS the software/hardware makers says to run. In my case that XP Pro still.

[TwoJ's]

Hmm, I'll have to check it out then. I never tried Vista because my employer told me that the software wouldn't work.

I've just had good fortune with xp, so I've never seen the need to update. Same reason I still run osx tiger that is pushing 4 years old on my powerbook; it has never failed to do anything I've needed it to.

[Jon325i]

lol, I'm behind the times with XP on my PC still.

I am too, but at the time I bought the laptop I have now (~18 months ago) Vista was still fairly new so I opted for XP Pro. I've been reading up on Windows 7 and it sounds like a good one. It will be interesting to see what feedback we can get about it here.


Jon

[Jand3rson]

Just thought I'd update this since the official RC1 version was leaked last week, but it comes out officially on May 5th. I just downloaded it last night, and burned the iso to DVD today. I want to install it, but I need to backup my system first. Anyone install it yet?

[Axxe]

My friend (huge computer nerd) was one of microsofts beta testers, says it's the speed of XP with the face of vista, on crack. I have to try it out on my next build, I refuse to install/use vista.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I have a new HD going into my laptop, my "tech guy" will be installing this as well.