Windows Seven is to be the next release of Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, which might take 3 years in development. You can read more about Windows 7 on Wikipedia.
Few days ago Windows blog announced the official public beta release of Windows Seven. So i applied myself and got a key plus download it. the ISO image of the Windows 7 Beta build 7000 was only 2.43GB. Obviously a lot smaller than (annoying) Windows Vista. Sorry about the quick crappy blog post.
Installation
All you gotta do was to burn the image into a DVD and to boot itup from your DVD drive.
windows 7 Setup loading
Windows 7 had a new logo with a kind of a Gaussian blur and overall the installation was same as installing Windows Vista, except the background image. I can say that installation was 100% based on Vista but installation was faster.
Windows Seven Installation same as vista
*These low quality images were taken from my phone (Sony Ericssion K618i)
Speed
I have to say this is the first time i am able to feel like i am on a Core 2 Quad. Compared to Windows Vista this is much better. Boots up in 13 seconds which vista took minutes.
Experience
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Yes that was my first impression on Windows 7. After all the crap they put on Vista i never even did think of giving pops on another Windows O/S. What windows 7 is like Vista without those bunch of message boxes, warnings prompting messages.
Here is a quick screen capture of my experience
Watch my first run screencast
In short i will say this is the best windows operating system i have experienced and i will be writing another post about features later.
Sounds like a good OS, makes me want to try it…
I downloaded it once already, but for some reason i think the file was corrupt. So couldnt install. Again going to download.
Would the copy you have downloaded work with my key?
yes it would work if the key is from microsoft
I just realised you work for Formax. I gave them a call earlier today and asked if they had a copy, they said no. Yeah, my key is from Microsoft. Will get in touch with you If i need your copy, since downloading 2GB is a pain thanks to the speed provided by ROL or Dhiraagu.
I’m really curious to see how windows 7 will turn out. Microsoft cant afford another Vista when they are competing with apple and Linux who have been gaining a lot market share in the past few years.
Windows madness!!! Get Linux on your machine – Suse and Ubuntu are very easy and, to borrow a WIndows phrase, very “plug and play” these days. Madness … Madness …Madness … Madness …Madness … Madness … (etc ad nauseum)