Who Here Grabbed Windows 7?

[alexandgruntz]

You can use the Release Candidate as a normal OS until March 1 2010, where it will start shutting down every two hours, and stop completely in June 2010 ("non-genuine experience").

 

[Gouri]

I grabbed it yesterday evening.

 

[tridge]

I've downloaded it, but I havn't installed it yet.
I want windows 7, but I don't want to have to reinstall it when Retail comes out...

Going to be a year until that point.

What's nice about installing Windows 7 over an old OS is that it creates a C:\Windows.old\ directory with all of your program files and documents for easy retrieval after the install. I found this useful for some of my programs, taking and replacing their saved folders for some settings.

 

[mac173]

I am gonna grab the release candidate tonight to dual boot on my laptop. My one concern is that the documentation says you need 64mb of video ram. I have on-board video on the laptop, so am I gonna have problems?

Its a Mobile Intel® GM965 Express Chipset. http://www.intel.com/products/notebook/chipsets/GM965/GM965-overview.htm

 

[hezuo]

I've heard that W7 is much better than Vista (anything is better than Vista). I have a Toshiba dualcore laptop running XP and ubuntu... I'm not sure about migrating from XP to windoes 7, has anyone tried it? Is stable yet? Has anyone seen bsod?

 

[adamparkzer]

I downloaded the release candidate and installed it on a virtual machine. I can't say the experience went well though - it took a very long time to install, it sporadically froze during the installation process, and when I started up for the first time, it said that it was unable to start and had to scan for errors before proceeding.

 

[mario222]

I got it but hatted it. It was just like Vista. The running was okay but nowhere near great. I'm going to stick to XP for as long as I can.

 

[ichwar]

mario, what are you talking about?!?!

vista can't even be compared to 7. neither can xp. If you have to use windows, 7 is the way to go.

 

[silito]

is it a good one i also need it guys

When it's available you will be able to download the beta from: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx

Currently they have removed the download because their servers can't cope with the number of people who want it.

 

[adamparkzer]

i also need it guys

If you still need it, you can download an ISO of the Windows 7 Release Candidate from Microsoft's website. The download page is located here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx

Scroll to the bottom of the page and select your bit and language.

 

[stef4001]

I have installed it on my spare test laptop. it has e 1.7 celeron and 1 gb ddr 2 ram harddisk 120gb and x3100 video card(sharedmemory).so not s
trong at al.
On believable it runs smooth and is much better than vista now i installed it also on virtualbox the difference is frapping, try it on real PC and the function added or verry intresting.
I my self love ultimate edition 2.1 running on ubuntu 9.04 and i don't love microsoft but i wil say this it looks like thay are doing e great job this time,

 

[inishe]

I registered for the RC (going to dual-boot my vista desktop), but I'm too busy to mess with it. Haven't even installed it yet, and I don't know that I ever will before 2010 (when the RC expires).

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to buy it one day :]

 

[phatfiel]

I just re-dual booted Vista and 7 with the RC. Still pretty good...Reminds me a lot of Vista but with the Show Desktop on the right....Not a big fan of that...

 

[coxclan]

I actually got a copy of RC1 myself, 32 and 64 bit.

It runs fast as heck and for all it can do that's quite pleasing.

I've heard the goal of the OS is to leech users away from XP towards their newer offerings.

Also, there will be a free upgrade for Vista customers.

I actually have the OS running on a Dell Inspiron 1520 dual booting with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6.

Pretty neat huh? Let me know if you want to know how to do it haha... PM preferred.

 

[pceasies]

I grabbed a copy on the first public release and got a key (you go to a page and it gave you the key and link). I also recently grabbed RC1 release to public, but haven't installed/upgraded from the old one yet. The key they are giving away. It's a public VLC key, there's around 5 of them.

 

[Zdroyd]

I have the LEGAL release candidate of Windows 7, that I got from MSDNAA.

 

[Hauzer]

Of course we all have a legal version of Windows 7.

1. Firstly because we shouldn't have illegal software;
2. Why would you want to download a illegal Windows 7 software when it's free + COA code from Microsoft in the first place?

I got a 64-bit copy of the Beta and RC1.

 

[gluxon]

I KNOW!!!

Dude, this thing is awesome, it really is Vista done right.

Microsoft finally put the transparency in fullscreen mode.

It's AWESOME!!!

 

[tridge]

I'm loving every minute of my 64-bit Win 7 RC1. I will be purchasing this OS when it comes out.

 

[igames]

I got it it very nice its fast and stable