Microsoft Makes First Windows 7 Beta Public

spearman914 · Jan 9, 2009

alexp999 said:
Mine stopped at 56%

Why? The traffic thing again?

ShadowFold · Jan 9, 2009

lol I dl'd the 7000 build x64 on torrent while I was at school. Glad I did.

btarunr · Jan 9, 2009

Downloading via bit-torrent is the best means. Don't expect MS servers to work full-speed today.

alexp999 · Jan 9, 2009

btarunr said:
Downloading via bit-torrent is the best means. Don't expect MS servers to work full-speed today.

I usually get 100kb/s on torrents, if I'm lucky.
right now getting 765.11Kb/s which should be faster than what my line is capable of, :wtf:

btarunr · Jan 9, 2009

Depends on the peers you're connected to, and their lines. Given that it's Windows7 beta, a good tracker can fetch you 100s of seeds and peers. So the scene is different from the "I usually get 100kb/s on torrents, if I'm lucky".

spearman914 · Jan 9, 2009

alexp999 said:
I usually get 100kb/s on torrents, if I'm lucky.
right now getting 765.11Kb/s which should be faster than what my line is capable of,

That's lucky. If i just dl now I get 20-30kb/s. If i torrent I go below 5kb/s. And I know it's not my isp, it does 1.5mb/s.

Arctucas · Jan 9, 2009

alexp999 said:
Once you sign upto the beta you will be given a key which licences the beta until August 2009.

But they are only giving out 2.5mil keys. :shadedshu

OK, how and where do you sign up?

spy2520 · Jan 9, 2009

yeah and is that the only way to get a key?

alexp999 · Jan 9, 2009

Apparently you can use beta keys from Vista, (which I will try in a bit, when my d'l finishes). Otherwise if you aren't an msdn or technet subscriber, you have to be one of the 2.5mil to get a key from the official windows 7 site. (which the link hasnt gone up yet due to server problems with heavy traffic)

EDIT: Just finsihed d'lding!!!

Castiel · Jan 9, 2009

Well I am going to dl the Beta now, and then later on im going to get my key, is that what I should do?

spearman914 · Jan 9, 2009

alexp999 said:
Apparently you can use beta keys from Vista, (which I will try in a bit, when my d'l finishes). Otherwise if you aren't an msdn or technet subscriber, you have to be one of the 2.5mil to get a key from the official windows 7 site. (which the link hasnt gone up yet due to server problems with heavy traffic)

EDIT: Just finsihed d'lding!!!

Thought u stopped at 56% or did u stopped and resume?

alexp999 · Jan 9, 2009

spearman914 said:
Thought u stopped at 56% or did u stopped and resume?

Added the link again as a mirror, and it resumed!

Just getting rid of the old x86 beta, and then I'll install this one, and try my old key...

spearman914 · Jan 9, 2009

alexp999 said:
Added the link again as a mirror, and it resumed! Just getting rid of the old x86 beta, and then I'll install this one, and try my old key...

Hope it works. And hope it works for me.

spy2520 · Jan 9, 2009

i see. well i got windows 7 up and running. Somebody posted a link earlier and it downloaded consistently at 700KB. only 29 days left so hopefully i'll end up with a key.

alexp999 · Jan 9, 2009

spy2520 said:
i see. well i got windows 7 up and running. Somebody posted a link earlier and it downloaded consistently at 700KB. only 29 days left so hopefully i'll end up with a key.

Same here to, while its burning have googled a bit, and it seems you cant use vista keys on build 6956 or later

Castiel · Jan 9, 2009

Ok, I was just downloading it, and it stopped at 400mb? Did that do to y'all?

alexp999 · Jan 9, 2009

Castiel said:
Ok, I was just downloading it, and it stopped at 400mb? Did that do to y'all?

Well mine stopped at 56% for a while, but thats why I used a d/l manager.

truehighroller1 · Jan 9, 2009

Castiel said:
Ok, I was just downloading it, and it stopped at 400mb? Did that do to y'all?

For the legal link,, it stopped at around 363 or something like that for me yes but that was using Windows download crap "IE". I downloaded flashget and now it is zuming along at 1.5mbs and at 1.54gb right now for me.

Update: 1.45mbs and at 2.23gb right now WOOT!

Done! Off to install. I will hit them up for a key later.

A Cheese Danish · Jan 9, 2009

Finally downloaded!!! Welp, time to transfer to my desktop and burn to disc and test it out

AsRock · Jan 10, 2009

Well got mine a while ago at 1MB\s. Put it on a DVD for it to fail to install. Says it cannot find a file :|.

It was copyied at x1 speed and the disk is clean as hell lol. Maybe i'll try making another DVD in a week or so but not wasting my good DVDs lol.

alexp999 · Jan 10, 2009

Just burnt dvd, but when I try to boot from it, It says press any key to boot from cd/dvd, then just sits there with a blank screen, wtf??

binsky3333 · Jan 10, 2009

Ok let me get this straight... As of right now, the MS download servers and down and therefore that is why there is no download link for the Windows 7 Beta. Also that is why there is no link to sign up for a CD key... Right?? :confused:

alexp999 · Jan 10, 2009

Just an update from Microsoft:

Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal—we're in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We're sorry for the delay and we'll re-post the Beta as soon as we can ensure a quality download experience.

Looks like it wont be up today, as they have removed, "come back on 9th Jan".

binsky3333 · Jan 10, 2009

Oh ok cool... Though how will i be able to get a product key?

truehighroller1 · Jan 10, 2009

I think the couple of people that are complaining they are getting errors downloaded the cracked one that has been floating around that is broken... I just got done downloading from the legal link that dude provided "the microsoft guy" and burned it and unoverclocked my cpu and installed it no problems at all and man it is fast compared to vista, it feels more solid as people have noted that were testing it. I can post screenies if any ONE likes. I didn't get a key yet but, I assure you I will get one and a legal one at that. Try hitting the legal links with a download accelerator program people it makes everything go alot better then IE.

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