Windows 7 public beta released

[voodooflux]

Looks like the first "public" (outside of MSDN) beta of Windows 7 is due to made available today for those interested.

< lights touch paper and retires to safe distance >

[d000hg]

Poking around on some other forums, Win7 looks like Vista, but really fast - faster than XP reportedly.

[voodooflux]

Poking around on some other forums, Win7 looks like Vista, but really fast - faster than XP reportedly.

There are other forums?

I have a decent spec PC doing nowt much at home so I might give it a go.

[DimPrawn]

Poking around on some other forums, Win7 looks like Vista, but really fast - faster than XP reportedly.

It's actually Vista 1.0

What was released as Vista was a pre alpha version of what it should have been.

But it's a chance to pay again to own the same operating system you've owned already.

[minestrone]

Poking around on some other forums, Win7 looks like Vista, but really fast - faster than XP reportedly.

So it could probably go on a machine that runs XP?

I have a pretty meaty laptop and vista runs like a bloody dog on it.

[VectraMan]

It's Vista with new bells and whistles. Vista is fine, now it's been out for a while, the drivers have caught up, and modern PCs are powerful enough to cope with it. But the name "Vista" has a bad reputation so they're re-releasing it with a different splash screen and some GUI changes to distance it from what was before. But it's still Vista underneath I'm sure.

XP had lots of compatibilty issues and accusations of being a resource hog when it first came out too.

[d000hg]

So it could probably go on a machine that runs XP?

I have a pretty meaty laptop and vista runs like a bloody dog on it.

No 1st-hand experience but some people said it is significantly faster (including startup time) than XP. I heard one of the key aims is for this OS to work on notebooks and mini-PCs - real low-spec machines.

[teclo]

I'm wondering if I should replace my Windows Server 2008 install on my laptop. That seems to run faster than Vista and has been rock solid from the start.

[scooby]

has anyone got this? what time is it release as public and its not on there yet?

[NiceUpNorth]

don't think public release is until Friday...