Jan
12
As in: for everyone, really. You’ll need a MS Live account (otherwise known as a Hotmail account) to retrieve an install key if you can’t find one anywhere else
**cough** piratebay **cough**
but Microsoft fixed their issues from last week and opened up their most-awaited beta to pretty much all of us. Running it right now, and it’s sa-weet…
Gizmodo has a great getting-started guide for you to check out.
Jan
9
EDIT: Microsoft hasn’t head of things like TORRENT FILES, and so their web servers imploded today. Try again next week?
If you’re like me and you hate Vista, choosing instead to stick with XP until the bitter end, I think you’ll be happy to see the arrival of Windows 7.
After having used Windows 7 for the last week or so, I can tell you it’s going to be a very important milestone for Microsoft. It’s fast, it’s stable – even for a beta! – and it has much lighter hardware requirements than the bloated beast that Vista is.
After (probably) intentionally releasing the beta into the wild via various torrent trackers, Microsoft announced that they would make Windows 7 Beta 1 available for download today – but only to the first 2.5million people.
So here I sit, hitting F5 over and over and over…