Microsoft To Kill Windows 7 Beta Februrary 10th

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."

Comments

Windows 7?

[bogaboga]

All I need is KDE 4.2 on a stable distro but not Windows incarnations. The good thing is that it will happen tomorrow.

Re:What?

[purpleraison]

I wouldn't want to manage 1,000,000,000 beta testers reports. After the 1,000th report of feature x breaking, the point is taken.

Lol.... but this is MICROSOFT. It's like the old question "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop" ...except in this case it's 'How many times does a bug report need to be filed before Microsoft thinks it needs to be fixed?'.