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blogs.zdnet.com - 1/2/2009

Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP? | Hardware 2.0

— blogs.zdnet.com — January 1st, 2009 Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and... XP? Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 2:59 pm Categories: On the test bench , Windows 7 Tags: Microsoft Windows 7 , Performance , Microsoft Windows XP , Operating ... (more) Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS ...

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thetechnicist.typepad.com - 12/30/2008

Windows 7 beta 1 - netbook install guide

— thetechnicist.typepad.com — With all the news about Windows 7 beta 1 leaking onto the torrent trackers, I figured it... was time to writeup a Windows 7 netbook install guide. I've just installed beta 1 on my HP Mini (deleted the old build... (more) Windows 7 beta 1 - netbook install guide

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gizmodo.com - 12/28/2008

Windows 7 Beta 1 (Build 7000) Leaked On BitTorrent [Windows 7]

— gizmodo.com — The Windows 7 Beta 1 that was public-bound in mid-January has been leaked now, and you can... get a copy on BitTorrent. The beta expires July 1, 2009, and from what we read, it's a bit more stable than the versions people have been playing with for a ... (more) Windows 7 Beta 1 (Build 7000) Leaked On BitTorrent ...

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Windows 7 Beta 1 Review
I4U News — ... . Quote from the review: "Windows 7 has a far fewer applications to look at than XP and Vista. Gone are applications such as Windows Mail, Windows Messenger, Movie Maker and so on. Anyone wanting apps of this sort will need to download then via Windows Live Essentials. Paint and Wordpad now incorporate the Ribbon UI found in Microsoft Office and seems to have received a little TLC by Microsoft programmers." Read the full Windows 7 beta 1 review on ZDNet . With the Windows 7 beta already looking pretty stable a mid-year release of Windows 7 is possible, but will be good ...

Windows 7 beta 1 reviewed, promises the world and more
CrunchGear — ... It’s about time Microsoft released an OS worthy of some hype and excitement. Mark my words, fiends: Windows 7 will be Microsoft’s watershed OS. If it’s not, then MS in in serious trouble. Like Palm, Windows is beloved, hated, and long overdue for an overhaul. Unlike Palm, Microsoft’s executives have so much money that they line hamster cages with it. That’s why I’m particularly interested in this review of beta 1: it has all the promise of Palm’s Nova with the means to deliver. ...

Windows 7 Beta 1 Out in the Wild [Windows 7]
Lifehacker — ... Consumer Electronics Show (running Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas), but, well, you know how the internet works by now. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet's Hardware 2.0 blog says the M1 build is strikingly similar to the M3 "preview" builds some folks (including one or two editors at this site) have been previewing for weeks . One big difference: The features previously hidden away (though un-lock-able with the "Blue Badge" ) are all offered by default in M1 Kingsley-Hughes says Windows 7 installs faster than XP or Vista, and likes many of the features we ranked as ...

Merry Christmas extremely bored men - Windows 7 beta hits the torrent sites
Tech Digest — ... If you haven't already had ENOUGH of BLOODY WINDOWS after having Vista forced down your throat and onto your hard drive, you may now start worrying about driver incompatibilities anew - Windows 7 has been leaked. The Beta 1 build of the next MS OS, which has been reviewed very favourably by a man here and is scheduled for a much wider beta test early next year - has popped up on Bittorrent for downloading. A good 20,000 or so users are currently nicking Windows 7 off ...