Sick of Vista? Try out Windows 7 Free!

January 10th, 09 by John MacMenamin

Sick of Vista? Try out Windows 7 Free!

 

For over two years Microsoft has plagued the design world with Vista and it’s slow performance and it’s over protective control system have become legendary.

So if your sick of Vista, Microsoft is working on a fix. It’s called Windows 7 and for a short time you can acquire a legal key to try it out your self.

It looks like Microsoft learned their lesson from Visa and wants to give the users some testing time before it’s release. Enjoy!

Here’s what Microsoft has to say about Windows 7:

Windows 7

Over the past few years, you’ve asked us to make some changes to Windows. We listened closely. Now it’s time to share an early look at how we’ve used your feedback. Windows 7 is faster, more reliable, and makes it easier to do what you want. Both the everyday things and the killer “is that really possible?” things. Dig into this site to see what’s coming.

Microsoft Official Windows 7 Page

Still wondering about if it’s worth it? Check out this video.

Steps for downloading an official Windows 7 beta key.

Download Windows 7: Windows 7 x86 (32bit) and x64 (64 bit)

Steps for a key:

1. Visit TechNet Downloads, sign in at the top right and let the page load
2. Within the same window copy and paste “https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/scripts/gcs.aspx?Product=tn-win7-64-ww&LCID=1033″ into the address bar or “https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/scripts/gcs.aspx?Product=tn-win7-32-ww&LCID=1033″ (64bit key but will work on 32 too, if you get an error refresh a few times)…enjoy the result below (32 bit link seems to work better), whilst stocks last. If you are still having issues try clearing your temp files and deleting all cookies.

You can also use the check4change Firefox addon too, you can find his method here.

According to Microsoft there are 2.5 million keys to go around worldwide so plenty in other words. Microsoft is also providing a QFE patch for the MP3 corruption issues that have plagued build 7000, this should be online shortly as KB961367. It’s extremely important you apply this patch as you may lose parts of your MP3s if the patch is not applied. 32bit and 64bit patches are now available.

About: John MacMenamin

John MacMenamin is the driving force behind alteredadvice.com a WP Development Magazine. If you'd like to keep in touch you can follow Altered on twitter or become a friend on facebook.

4 Responses

1. Thomas says:

   February 9, 2009 at 3:52 pm

   I stick with my Mac and OSX. It simply works. Is great that Microsoft finally let users to say what they think.
2. admin says:

   February 10, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Good point Thomas,
   I have high hopes for Windows 7
3. JanaBB says:

   November 28, 2009 at 2:38 am

   I will also stick with my Mac but really am curios about this windows 7 just to see how they improved it.

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