http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-installation-instructions.aspx
There it is up for the offing, a real Microsoft Windows 7 Beta Download URL and good luck to all those who venture forth. I've seen and used many of the Beta software from good ol' Microsoft and have to say that with the singular exception of Microsoft Bob...yes! they all worked until I pulled them off to mount the Real Deal.
I also always took the precaution of using a bare, new hard drive as my installation disk. I always do a Clean Install not wanting to drag old issues into the new OS environment. Given that here we are once again crowding Microsoft's ever busy server farm with millions of downloads of this not small Beta Release. It's 3.15 GB worth of software, fat brothers, fat! And it's an ISO file so you must burn it to to a DVD to make it function at all. Not for mere mortals this thing. You must sign in too to Windows Live. Verify your email address too past all those spam filters. And it'll die on 1 August so says Microsoft. Nice. You see it's for free alright but it is a Beta and they want you to buy it at the end of the Beta test. Fair enough. Now it only has to impress me more than my 64 bit Vista install (1 machine) or my XP Pro Installs (3 machines) and have a reasonable price for complete functionality not the goofy model offered by Vista of so many versions before you get the Real Deal. Awful that was, just awful. And...when you got thru with the Vista install often times it was slower than your old XP install. Makes one crazy doesn't it. So as Vista was a near bomb and many are still doing fine with XP and the 2nd Great Depression seems upon us how is MS going to get us to buy this puppy in numbers big enough to justify it's dvelopment cost? Therin lies the problem gentlemen and gentlewomen. Will it sell this time around?
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