Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer used his keynote speech at CES to announce that software developers would get at the trial version on 7 January. On 9 January members of the public will get the chance to download the successor to Windows for themselves.
Mr Ballmer said Windows 7 would be the pivot of a broader Microsoft push to improve the way its separate software and service families work together.
In delivering the opening keynote, Mr Ballmer has taken over from Bill Gates - who in 2008 bowed out of day-to-day involvement with the company he founded.
In a nod to the chilly economic climate, Mr Ballmer said: “We face some really big challenges. We are all feeling it and its impact will likely be with us for some time.”
But, he said, the global economic slowdown would not hobble the pace of technological change.
“I believe our digital lives will only continue to get richer,” said Mr Ballmer. “There’s no turning back from the connected world.”
The newest version of the Windows operating system would, he said, be the “linchpin” of an effort to make it easier for customers to do more with the different Microsoft gadgets and services they use.


the next release of the Windows client operating system, built on the secure foundation of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Performance, reliability, security, and compatibility are core tenets of this release as we collect your feedback to meet our engineering goals of making Windows 7 the best-performing and most stable Windows operating system to date. New innovations in the product are designed to augment your ability as an IT professional to better provision and manage increasingly mobile PCs, protect data, and improve both end-user and personal productivity.

Download link: Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview

32 bit: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...FRE_EN_DVD.iso

64 bit: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...FRE_EN_DVD.ISO

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Use any one of these Product Keys for 32-bit... These are product keys that I received while downloading from Microsoft website...


TQ32R-WFBDM-GFHD2-QGVMH-3P9GC


4HJRK-X6Q28-HWRFY-WDYHJ-K8HDH

These may work for 64-bit but I am not sure...
Thanks

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The new Windows 7 beta release just like Vista preview releases before it incorporate some additional UI elements meant for testers to submit feedback back to Microsoft.
Now considering you may be running this Beta 1 release as your main OS for some reason (I admit it), one of those elements in particular can become annoying and obtrusive to your otherwise neat configured desktop.

Here’s how to remove the Send Feedback link:
(1) Run the Registry Editor (type regedit on the start run menu)
(2) Browse to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
(3) If it’s not already there, add a new DWORD (32-bit) value “FeedbackToolEnabled” and set its data field to 0.
(4) The change should take effect on your next restart.

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Good...
Mere PC par main nay install kar li hay. But sound card ka problem hay...Driver hei install nahi ho ay hain.
Aur kuch graphics ka bhi problem hay na. Because mere pass 3D card 32 MB ka hay..
Windows is nice and fast...

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hmmm;
It's awsome for my Laptop...

I have these spec...
2.0GHZ Dual Core
1GB Ram
385 or 251 MB of Memory (I am not sure xp and vista shows 385 and 7 shows 251)

Every thing installed automatically.
For XP I had to install sound card , graphics card... even Ethernet drivers..
For Vista I had to install only Graphics card ... all others installs automatically.

But for Vienna I did not installed anything , Drivers for every chip installed automatically..
I love u 7...It's superb

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I have done all successfully.
Every thing has been installed, by Live automatic update by the Windows7..
Now I can listen the Sound ...

For Graphic Card Drivers etc , I have used the following instructions

I have sent The following feed back to the MS..

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