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First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1
The other A. N. Other writes "It seems that Microsoft couldn't keep the lid on Windows 7 beta 1 until the new year. By now, several news outlets have their hands on the beta 1 code and have posted screenshots and information about this build. ZDNet's Hardware 2.0 column says: 'This beta is of excellent quality. This is the kind of code that you could roll out and live with. Even the pre-betas were solid, but finally this beta feels like it's "done." This beta exceeds the quality of any other Microsoft OS beta that I've handled.' ITWire points out that this copy has landed on various torrent sites, and while it appears to be genuine, there are no guarantees. Neowin has a post confirming that it's the real thing, and saying Microsoft will be announcing the build's official availability at CES in January."
The sound of ZDNet's Hardware 2.0 writers blowing their loads over this is deafening.
Hey, dont judge them. After all, in today's economic situation, they do need to get paid somehow.
All I learned from their screenshots is that it looks like KDE and that there's a picture of a fish in the wallpaper. Wow. Revelation of the day.
"What are the improvements? Have they added in WinFS yet?"
They tried to - they're in the process of copying the files now ... the dialog box says "Copying files" and to please wait another 10.459 years for the operation to complete ...
Remember when during waiting of win95 many magazines were worried what will happen to McAfee and other virus-scanner companies when the new windows is fully virustolerant?
Well, whatever one might think about windows 95, "virus-tolerant" is certainly an apt description!
You think Vista caused that? I don't see any evidence, but somehow it seems plausible.
I think their plan is to mimic the look and feel of Gnome or KDE, you know, to ease the transition for mom and pop when they switch to linux
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I can understand somebody wanting the pirated version of a video game, or even a release-version of an OS, but who in their right mind would tie up their Internet connection for a day and risk the legal trouble and possibility of a virus/worm/backdoor to download a beta copy of an operating system that's built on the most reviled version of Windows since WinMe?
It's apparent that Windows 7 represents a radical name change from Vista. A bold new direction in OS branding.
And people say innovation is dead in Redmond.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
The fact that modern hardware eats XP for breakfast, and shits out Windows 3.1.
WHO NEEDS SHIFT WHEN YOU HAVE CAPSLOCK/ DAMN1
Yeah, people just "grab free distros". Like my sister who just bought a laptop with Vista, I asked her if she liked it and she just said "oh no I just grabbed an ISO of Debian through BitTorrent, burnt it and installed it over the Vista install. By the way, is ZFS any good or should I just stick to ext3?". I was like "wow!". Then she proceeded to ask me if she needed to vi into /etc/fstab to mount her iPod.
You just got troll'd!
I use OS X daily; it has many virues
Would that be virtues or viruses?
Windows is all the rage. Was then, is now, will be then. God Damn! It's Good to be KING !!
Wow, your sister sure is stupid - she should know better and use Emacs for that!