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.

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How to get @windowslive.com

To get and register a @windowslive.com email address, go to the following countryindows Live Hotmail sign up page, then click on Get It button to open registration form. The @windowslive.com alias should be selected as default. Make sure that you logout and sign out from existing Hotmail account before going to the page. Complete the sign up and you will have a user@windowslive.com email address.

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Indonesia (in English language)
Finland (in Finnish language)
Switzerland (in French language)
Thailand (in Thai language)
Turkey (in Turkish language)

I signed up using Turkish Page and used Adana as my area with the postal code 01330.

Your inbox wont be in English So How to change Language?

1. Go to www.hotmail.com and login with your newly created email address.
2. You will find options which will appear as “Seçenekler” in the top right hand corner.

3. Click on that and you will be taken to the Windows Live Hotmail Options page. It will look something like this.

4. Chose English from there and dont forget to change your details in Windows Live Credentials.

Here is a link to all the list of Windows Live Domains with details.

Enjoy!.