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Windows 7 Beta Download Imminent?

By Doug Holland (Intel) (245 posts) on December 19, 2008 at 9:59 am

Microsoft seems to be nearing the release of the Windows 7 beta after a link to download the beta appeared on the Windows 7 homepage today. Could it be that we'll be able to download build 7000.0.081212-1400 sometime later today?

At the time of writing there is no download link on the Windows Server 2008 R2 homepage, the server version of Windows 7, which is also expected to reach the beta one milestone at the same time.

All of this said however, and James O'Neill (Microsoft) is still saying that “Those who know aren’t talking and those who talk don’t know”. I'll readily admit I'm in the group that doesn't know... Guess we'll have to just wait and see...

Personally I would assume that only a small group of beta testers will see the beta build before Steve Ballmer's keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which will occur on January 7th 2009.

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December 19, 2008 11:32 AM PST Doug Holland (Intel) Total Points: 13,765 Status Points: 13,765 Black Belt

It now looks as though Microsoft has removed the link from the Windows 7 homepage ... probably because their server was getting too many requests to that Url.

December 24, 2008 4:27 PM PST seobuing

감사합니다

December 24, 2008 4:30 PM PST seobuing

Windows 7 Beta Build 7004 Windows 7 Beta Build 7004

January 14, 2009 8:57 PM PST Doug Holland (Intel) Total Points: 13,765 Status Points: 13,765 Black Belt

Download is now publically available at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx Has been available on MSDN for sometime although I didn't notice what day the public download went live.

February 6, 2009 6:36 PM PST som-dylan Total Points: 30 Registered User

Wow Excellent !

February 19, 2009 8:41 PM PST tomas

thanks senor, ser...

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