We are not yet announcing anything regarding finalized upgrade paths for Windows 7,” LeBlanc added. So, if you intend to do an upgrade – be sure it is on a PC running Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. “The Windows 7 Beta only supports Windows Vista SP1 to Windows 7 upgrades. Microsoft informed that the Beta bits of Windows 7 would expire on August 1, 2009. Still, because it is delivered as an ISO, Win 7 Beta can also be effortlessly installed into a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine. Due to the fact that the bits are packaged as ISO images, Windows 7 Beta 1 will have to be burnt on a DVD prior to installation. Users will be able to download either the 32-bit, or the 64-bit flavor of Windows 7 Beta.
Because the Windows 7 Beta will be offered download-only, it will be provided to you as an ISO image (an. The Windows 7 Beta will be available in English, German, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi, and each language will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions (except Hindi, which will only be available in 32-bit).
“The Windows 7 Beta is going to be available download-only (we’re not sending out physical media), and available for a limited time to the first 2.5 million people who download the beta. “On January 9th, the Windows 7 Beta will be available for Windows enthusiasts to download,” Brandon LeBlanc, Windows communications manager on the Windows Client Communications Team, revealed. Ahead of releasing Windows 7 Beta 1 to the general public, the software giant warned that the Beta program had limited participation, and that downloads would be discontinued once a sufficient number of users grabbed the bits of the operating system.
However, access to the initial Beta versions of the Windows 7 client was opened exclusively to TechNet Plus and MSDN subscribers.Ī couple of days later, this aspect is about to change, as the first public downloads of Win7 Beta are on the verge of going live. Microsoft has already made available for download the first fully-fledged Beta of Windows 7 (just the Ultimate edition of the platform) as of January 7, 2009, the kick-off day of the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Windows 7 Beta is available for download via this link. Believe it or not, the public downloads of Windows 7 Beta are now just hours away.
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