Downloading the Windows 7 Beta

If you’re curious about Windows 7 beta, downloading has resumed after Microsoft added a few more servers to handle the extreme demand.  As far as I can tell downloading resumed within the last 30 minutes.  I jumped on the oportunity and am downloading the 64-bit English version now.  After specifying those requirements I was brought to a very brief survey page, which asked such things as my name, email address, job, and current OS.  After that I was brought to the following page, which was pretty straightforward.  (I blocked out the product key, duh.)

Clicking “download now” brought me to a page that downloaded a download manager, which is downloading the ISO as I type this.  The speed seems to be pretty good for now… at least it’s the fastest I’ve seen a download go on this Internet connection.

The “Installation Instructions” page is a link to here: https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-installation-instructions.aspx

I’ll try to document more of the beta experience in later blog posts.

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Betas, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Windows, Windows 7
10 January 2009 comment TrackBack-URI