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Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay

Posted by timothy on from the join-the-queue-or-ubuntu dept.

Z80xxc! writes "The Windows 7 Beta release is now available for download by the general public, in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Microsoft had previously announced availability around 3 PM PST on Friday, but after unexpected numbers of people proved to be interested in the download, had to postpone it to add more servers."

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  1. Site seems to break by ya+really · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is it just me or does this download break on every browser but IE?

    I tried:

    • Opera 9.63
    • Firefox 3
    • Safari
    • Konqueror

    Anyone else get similar results?

  2. Re:All that trouble... by purpleraison · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Assuming that major hardware manufacturers don't fuck it up with bad drivers again, anyways. In my experience, that's largely what killed Vista. We're going on two years now I think, and I still can't get a proper not-broken Vista driver from nVidia, on a then-new GPU.

    Uh, you DO realize that the drivers were never released because Microsoft refused to allow developers access to the codebase so they could CREATE drivers, right?

    Microsoft wanted A LOT of money, and all kinds of crazy agreements that only benefitted Microsoft. The developers did all they could to work around MS.

    Ultimately, it was Microsoft that shot themselves in the foot, in addition to Vista being crap.

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