Anyone downloading Windows 7 Beta tomorrow? Legally!

[Moby]

I got a key! Hurrah!

A million F5 hits but I finally got there!

 

[ViolentJ]

Git! My fingers gone numb I've been pressing so much.

 

[ViolentJ]

Were you refreshing the page that says "The site is currently experiencing technical difficulties, please check back in the next business day." ?

 

[Moby]

yup

 

[ViolentJ]

Got the key!

 

[JaseCat]

Can you post the link you used ViolentJ?

 

[Moby]

Congrats

I sent the missus out to get some blank DVDs !

Now - must get to that Curry!

 

[DrR]

WTF, how do i get a key?

 

[Scottydog]

http://wb.dlservice.microsoft.com/d...00_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso is :dead:

and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx is :dead:

Downloaded, but I have no key...

 

[JaseCat]

Same here!

 

[MDP91]

I cant even download it now, ive just got back after my film and I go onto the windows 7 site and I just says 'Windows 7 coming soon !' ?!

 

[MDP91]

Ok, I found this:

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/windows-7-publi.html


How can I get a key ? !

 

[ViolentJ]

On my iPhone whilst it installs heh

 

[MDP91]

lol, but the windows 7 site hasnt updated, so how are peeps meant to get keys?

 

[Scottydog]

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...00_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso

32bit Version.

Still working on a key

 

[Seedy172]

I still cant find one! An now my download has abruptly halted at 15%

 

[ViolentJ]

lol, but the windows 7 site hasnt updated, so how are peeps meant to get keys?

they've taken it down for some reason

 

[MDP91]

I still cant find one! An now my download has abruptly halted at 15%

Use the link I provided,

 

[andywright182]

cant get a key. folow the link provided and just tells me windows 7 beta coming soon. donkey poop

 

[ViolentJ]

Apparently they underestimated demand and are adding more infrastructure to cope

 

[MDP91]

I have the .iso file now for the 32bit , am I right in thinking I must burn it to a disk before I can open/run it ?

 

[Seedy172]

Yes, You'll need to burn it as an image. However, if you have something like PowerISO, you could possibly open it, extract the files and run it. BUT, I'm not 100% if that would actually work.

Cheers for the link btw... seems to be working well

 

[JackoR26]

Anyone got a link for the 64bit version??

 

[Scottydog]

Anyone got a link for the 64bit version??

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...0_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO

 

[valver lad]

At a guess you could also mount the image using Virtual Daemon then and install it that way.

 

[Gareth]

how the hell do you get a key??

 

[MDP91]

The link I posted has a link to the 32bit & 64bit

 

[JackoR26]

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...0_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO

Thanks mate :star:

 

[Scottydog]

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9125626

 

[JackoR26]

Oh dear, typical MS lol

 

[andywright182]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx

why does this just say windows 7 coming soon ? do i have to keep refreshing this?

 

[Scottydog]

Oh dear, typical MS lol

Indeed lol!

How .. Maybe they thought no-one would bother downloading it That's after they told everyone to at a number of conferences of course. lol

Still looking for a key solution.. going to install it anyway on a Virtual PC.. iirc I have 30 days until it throws a wobbla. We may get a beta sent through at work anyway for us to install/test through our licensing contract. We did with Vista.

 

[ViolentJ]

Using it now (activated). New task bar is very KDEesque.

 

[MDP91]

Sorry to be a pain, how do I burn the iso and an image on a disk? lol

 

[Scottydog]

Sorry to be a pain, how do I burn the iso and an image on a disk? lol

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=burn+iso :rasp:

 

[JackoR26]

Indeed lol!

How .. Maybe they thought no-one would bother downloading it That's after they told everyone to at a number of conferences of course. lol

Still looking for a key solution.. going to install it anyway on a Virtual PC.. iirc I have 30 days until it throws a wobbla. We may get a beta sent through at work anyway for us to install/test through our licensing contract. We did with Vista.

Haha yea tell the world then put 5 servers online to cope with it!

I will only be trying it on a virtual PC, its hard enough getting Vista64 loaded on my machine so 30 days will be fine

 

[dk]

had this from technet yesterday, looks quite nice, not got a key thought yet.

 

[ViolentJ]

Well I've got one problem so far. It installed fine but no longer recognises my DVD drive. Says there's a problem.

Edit: Fixed, it was a registry issue.

 

[JackoR26]

Just in the final stages of install now

 

[Scottydog]

Installed.. quite impress so far, some things I have come across i've immediately thought were brilliant changes. Like Screen Resolution just a couple of clicks away on the Desktop instead of via Personalize > Display Settings for instance.

Just got to connect it to the network and t'internet now