DISQUS

Trevor · 1 year ago

DVD's? The DVD's what? Why the use of the possessive here? Brutal!

Dan · 1 year ago

i hope it's not buggy... like all the windows releases we've been seeing

Inorganic Matter · 1 year ago

Why are you all excited about this? Doesn't anyone remember how utterly awful the betas of XP and Vista were? They ran terribly slow (due to all the debug processes), crashed on a 5-minute basis, had most of the shiny new functionality disabled, and the driver support was nonexistent.

Call me when are looking at an RC or GM. Then I'll get excited.

me · 1 year ago

Windows 7 = Windows vista.

YOU DONT FOOL ME MICROSOFT!

they want to sell the same thing with a diferente name.

Joel · 1 year ago

OR since DVD is an abbreviation, an apostrophe can mistakenly be added to represent plurality; for example, when using no punctuation, as in, "DVD," it is correct to use a lowercase "s" at the end. But if were punctuated as, "D.V.D." then an apostrophe s is needed: D.V.D.'s. It's a common mistake, but it is generally acceptable to use 's at the end of abbreviations.

Mike · 1 year ago

They're supposed to be buggy. We're talking about pre-beta and beta here for crying out loud

Mike · 1 year ago

When was you're last English class, Trevor? It's always been acceptable to use an apostrophe-S to make capitalized words plural. LIke, "I made four A's last semester."

craz · 1 year ago

The early release means either 2 things. We're all going to be disappointed by the lack of changes seen in Beta 1. Their testing went extremely well and they're more than prepared to have the beta ready by then. I just hope it's the latter

John · 1 year ago

Using apostrophe-s to pluralize abbreviations is technically acceptable, yes... But it's also considered old fashioned and illogical by many grammarians.

Note that I am not a grammar expert. I just play one on anonymous internet forums. ;)

vidalsasoon · 1 year ago

Microsoft has excellent dev tools these days so it's not surprising that they're getting agile with their products.
I really don't think Apple or Linux have the frameworks to keep up with Microsoft at this point. I'll admit I don't know much about either of them but it seems like a lot of pretty hacks on old systems.

TheWindBlows · 1 year ago

It's just an improved interface..KDE4 is an entire Desktop Environment thats been roughly in development for the same amount of time as Windows 7 i think less. KDE4.2 is shaping up to be the best yes even better than windows 7 or GNOME - then i can't speak for Mac's - and thats plan to be release January 27 then brought to distribution's. KDE4.3 should appear a little after windows 7 is final and bring far more improvements.
So don't say windows is development is faster off this info. An entire desktop environment was built ground up in the time Windows 7's Vista improvement tweaks were done. You can consider them comparable i suppose.

Pretty hacks? Most people who work on linux don't allow pretty hacks to stick around.
Also Linux does have a wonderful framework with C++/Qt(/KDE 4.x libs is wanted) ~ High paced efficient development.
Though what is lacked is tools for optimizing there are some for linux the best ones are on MacOSX though.

bill · 1 year ago

When was your last English class, Mike? It's always been the rule that you're means you are and does not denote possession (as does your).

kiwi2008 · 1 year ago

I have to say that at least Microsoft are trying to do something about their release dates.

If they can get it right, they'll shut a few detractors up. Only a few mind. Some people just love to hate them.

Jerry S · 1 year ago

Not to mention, build 6801 is probably the most stable we've ever seen out of all the betas in windows' history

tony · 1 year ago

its not like we are buying it anyways.

jeremy · 1 year ago

Shucks! I am in the end of a large project and cannot make those dates! Is there any way to signup for the beta sans going?

SQLDenis · 1 year ago

>>Some bloggers have been quick to criticize the pre-beta

hahaha, there is one person who did not get invited to the party at PDC 2008 and he was the only person who gave 7 a negative review at PDC

craz · 1 year ago

Previous digging leads me to believe that this would be offered via Microsoft Connect. But in these days, ThePirateBay seems like a very good option as well ;)

craz · 1 year ago

haha, what did you think of his debate with Thor?

boe · 1 year ago

If that is the case, I hope they remove the debug processes from the release version of Vista because it still is slow as shinola.

anonymous · 1 year ago

Haha, pwned. Mike you suck!

DiggaWatt · 1 year ago

omg - Are you guys really that dense? Don't you realize Mike made that mistake on purpose as a joke!? Wow.

davis · 1 year ago

i was curious if anyone knows how an non msdn user can be accepted in the windows 7 beta. i would love to beta test the OS.

800HighTech · 1 year ago

After a several months of trying to get on with Vista, I finally scaked it off and reverted back to XP, what a relief! I hope Windows 7 brings a lot more than it appears to be promising at the moment.

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alex · 1 year ago

hahaha

craz · 1 year ago

Probably piratebay ;) but rumors were up and around previously that it would be delivered via Windows Connect. I'll make sure to fill you guys in if that is the case but I would recommend signing up an account for now just in case

craz · 1 year ago

The pre-beta build 6801 is even more stable than past beta builds for Vista or XP

ron.paul · 1 year ago

Fully Agree.

Lowltu · 1 year ago

Lolwutislowltwt

Steve-O · 1 year ago

I can agree, I have the PDC build *oddly* from the PDC and installed it once I got back, and I must say everything runs and works fine. Not seen any issues with it yet and been using it as my main OS since then.

All installed and running with everything I had under Vista.

So for me I am happy that they (MS) are moving in the right direction.

S.

craz · 1 year ago

6956 is actually more instable than 6801 for me. I've been getting weird GUI errors like blank spots on the screen

Steve-O · 1 year ago

That may make sence. The first PDC build was much older and probably had a little more testing before heading for the masses.
I suspect the Beta1 in Jan 09 will be much the same slightly older than current build at the time but alot better quality wise.
I cannot wait as it fixes one issue with some hardware I have under Vista which wont work to working fine under 7.

Knight · 11 months ago

@Joel, SHUT UP YOU NERD!