This totally wouldn't have happened to highly anticipated downloads from Firefox or Apple, which can push their terabytes through pipes made of sheer <i>cool</i>.<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/its-firefox-3-world-record-download-day-but-im-still-waiting/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/its-firefox-3-world-rec...</a><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Mac-fans-overload-Expo-Web-site/0,130061733,139232436,00.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Mac-fans-overload-...</a>
Windows 7 Beta 32-bit build 7000 en_us :<p><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso" rel="nofollow">http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-4...</a><p>Windows 7 Beta 64-bit build 7000 en_us :<p><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.iso" rel="nofollow">http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-4...</a><p>I found this on another website, but the links work and it seems real enough.
I'm running Win7 from MSDN here. Honestly if you're on Vista SP2 (pre-release) then there not enough difference in Win7 to waste the upgrade time. (Vista SP2 seems to be pretty stable memory wise - no more swapping/disk grinding for me).<p>Also note, if you have an older ATI video card you may need to boot into safe mode and remove the old drivers to make the screen readable. I had to run the 2nd half of the install blind (it really is beta).<p>Final note: watch your MP3's - check the release notes. Seems the install damages them.
I thought this going to lead to the "fix" so that Windows 7 doesn't delete the first 3 seconds of every MP3 you have lol.<p><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961367" rel="nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961367</a>
"Urgent information: Your computer needs a scan. You have not scanned for spyware in 0 days".<p>I was hoping all the niggling non-resizable dialogs and pestering messages would be sorted this time. They aren't, and there are more of them.<p>Despite that, I like it more than Vista already.