Microsoft To Kill Windows 7 Beta Februrary 10th

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 26, 2009 @01:44AM from the corking-the-genie dept.

mamaphoenix writes "Paul McDougall of InformationWeek reports Computer enthusiasts who want to get their hands on the trial version of Microsoft's next operating system have just two more weeks to do so. The company says it will end availability of Windows 7 Beta on Feb. 10. There are a couple of loopholes, however. Users who started to download the OS before that date will have until Feb. 12 to complete the process. Also, Microsoft will continue to distribute product keys beyond Feb. 12 to users who have previously downloaded Windows 7 Beta but have yet to obtain a key. 'We are at a point where we have more than enough beta testers and feedback coming in to meet our engineering needs, so we are beginning to plan the end of general availability for Windows 7 Beta,' said Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft's in-house Windows blogger, in a post Friday. Microsoft will post warnings on its Web site that the download program for Windows 7 is about to end starting Tuesday. A final version of Windows 7, Microsoft's follow-up to Windows Vista, is expected to be available in late 2009 or early 2010."

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Ninnle Labs responds... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-26 02:22 · Score: -1, Redundant

All versions of Ninnle Linux and Ninnle BSD, beta or not, are available at anytime, a Ninnle Labs spokeperson said today. The current beta version is expected to be able to mimic Win7 very closely, thanks to settings available in NinWM. Ninnle Office, meanwhile, will be able to handle documents from any version of MS Office seamlessly, just as it always has done.