Windows 7 Beta Deadline

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Microsoft announced that it will stop on offering downloads of Windows 7 Beta on February 10. Users who are downloading during that time have time to complete the download by Feb. 12.

Patrick DeRosier, who is the CTO of CPU Guys, said that overall system performance and usability improved.

Those who are TechNet and MSDN subscribers could download the beta until August 1 when the testing period expires.

“The biggest complaint our customers had about Vista was that nothing [in the user interface] was where they expected it to be,” said Steve Bohman of Columbus Micro.

Source: ChannelWeb

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jeff_windows_team says:

January 27th, 2009 at 3:09 pm

Good Afternoon Lee-
My name is Jeff and I work with the Windows Outreach Team. Thanks for your post about the extended deadline period for the Windows 7 Beta. Here is an excerpt from the Windows Team Blog describing in a little bit of detail the three-step process that MS will use to close out the download period:
“The shutdown of general availability for the Windows 7 Beta will occur in 3 phases over the course of the next few weeks:
* Starting January 27th, the Windows 7 page will be updated with a warning that time is running out on downloading the Windows 7 Beta and that we will be limiting downloads shortly. People will be encouraged to register and start the download of the Windows 7 Beta sooner rather than later.
* February 10th, new downloads of the Windows 7 Beta will no longer be available. People who have already started their Windows 7 Beta download and have not yet finished will still be able to finish their download and are encouraged to do so.
* February 12th, people will no longer be able to complete their download of the Windows 7 Beta. Anyone who hasn’t finished downloading the Windows 7 Beta will be unable to do so.”
If you are interested in the full blog post, here is a link to it: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/01/23/general-availability-for-the-windows-7-beta-to-end.aspx
Thanks for your involvement with the Windows 7 Beta.
Cheers!
Jeff
Windows Outreach Team