Windows 7 Beta ISO Leaked

At first I was thinking, "Wow they have horrible security" but after I read the text I thought, "Hey, that's cheap." >.<;

Ive known about the leak for sometime now... i think i will wait for a public release

Hope it'll be better than vista... Don't wanna mess up with my com by trying it out ><

Im considering trying it but part of me wants to also wait for the public beta release. Guess I'll see how I feel in the morning about it.

Not trying it. Vista works fine and I'll upgrade only when I get a new laptop.

Lol I'll get it if the reviews come back positive.

Lol I'll get it if the reviews come back positive.

Are that stupid enough to go reach our hands into a bear trap?

Well my friends been using it...I'll get the full review from him...

I'm happy with my old desktop running XP, and my new Mac laptop.
well, we'll see.

there have been leaks for some time and hell lotta torrents on this
but i'll just wait for the official release

I'll wait for a final version to be released.

I'm not even going to bother with it once it's released. I'll stick with Vista and eventually move up to 3.1?

Nah its certain that they do it on purpose, but doing it so obviously is kind of...

I've heard good things about the beta so far. I'm surprised they would reveal this so soon while they still have many many XP users to convert to one of the many versions of Vista. I'll wait to hear how it fairs Vs Vista and then I'll make a choice. Of course by then I'll probably build myself a 100% Linux compatible Machine and leave Windows behind. This machine will still run XP though. I'll probably use it as a recording machine since the E-MU/Creative sound card drivers only really work in XP (and of course even here they suck - because Creative sucks).

Will stick with windows XP because I love it and don't want to risk trying the new one because there are possibilities in having errors/problems :3.

Well, I shouldn't say for certain will wait until public release...once I get back to my desktop compy I may give it a spin in VMware. I do remember my Dad's old Pentium AT&T machine running Windows 3.1, and CompuServe dial-up internet...these are definitely better days.

Didn't get to comment on the desktop/laptop article either--my desktop compy is a triple-booting (Leopard/Vista x64/Ubuntu x64) Mac Pro beast of a machine, and it's more computing power than anyone would really ever need, so perfect for me. My laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet running Ubuntu, a nice sturdy little machine that is perfect for classes and school and a little coding while I'm away from my apartment and desktop compy. So, I don't even use Windows that much anyway except for games; but I may still give Win7 a spin at some point pre-release.

Why isn't there an option "Will stick to Mac OS X Leopard"

Same here Danny. Guess it may indeed be intentional.
They'll receive more inputs from users by doing such.

I'm probably not going to try it since I'm really just too lazy to get it and install it. Don't really want to beta test it.. haha. Hopefully everything gets finished and released while I'm still in my university, since we'll most likely get a free copy. ^_^

I will rather get a mac! =X but I am fine with XP now~

Disclosure: I am a vehement Vista Hater and nothing will change that.
I still run J-WinXP-SP3 and J-Win2K-SP4 for games and web and have ZERO
crashes or BSODs in the years that I've used them. So screw Vista.

Now, just tried the Win7 Beta build 7000 and I must say that it is finally
running semi-better than Vista did at this point in time. The system "felt"
a little more snappy. Memory usage was around 500-600MB(out of 2GB) after
a restart. UAC did not pop up once even for device manager (did not check
if it was running by default). Default driver support was better than Vista.
Win7 even automatically install drivers for my Realtek Gigabit LAN and ancient
sound card. (Although there was a glitch in the sound quality, at least it
installed).

I still hate the Eye-Candy Aero & the Ribbon UI,(damn you Office2007).
The over-hyped Taskbar is crap IMO. I know exactly how many and which windows
and programs I have running, I don't need a stupid preview to pop up(on mouse over)
on each program on the taskbar. It still feels like a dumbed down color UI for a
2 year old. What I really want is a true "Classic" windows theme, in that I can
disable all eye-candy and fluff so that I can make it look and feel like Win2K/XP
but with all the supposed benefits and security upgrades of Win7.

I will reserve judgment until the RTM is out, but so-far it is an improvement to Vista.

I'm using it right now to post this (with firefox of course) seems to run really good on my laptop (didn't even need to install drivers) no slow down at all uses way less resources. I like some of the new features it has so I'm pretty impressed with it, but I've only been using it for about 10 hours and still haven't played with probable 80% of the stuff it dose but So far it's looking pretty good.

Uhm... I love Windows 98. I use XP, but I remove all the useless stuff until it is like Win98. For Vista I do the same, but remove the useless stuff requires much time. For Windows 7, I will do the same.

i am using XP and i dont see a reason why i should change to vista or windows 7. XP is very stable and provides all of my needs.

They still have bugs with Vista, but they're going to be focusing on developing Windows 7... geez, Vista users are screwed. It's like they're saying "We've given up on Vista and we'll be making a new OS instead."

I downloaded it but who knows if i'll ever try it.

(x) Woudln't touch it with a 10-foot pole.

I'll better try it first.

I could vote this time but anyways I stick in Ubuntu Linux I need no Window$ ^^

I think Win 7 is going to be very similar to Vista and I like Vista for the best tablet support yet. I still have a computer that runs Windows 3.1, a 80386SL laptop, 4 megs of ram, ~100md HD monochrome screen, and a 9600 baud modem.

These days are much better, and I don't really care about OS's until I have a hardware change, then map out your IRQ's and DMA's and hope there is no other problems. I'll upgrade my desktop "knock on wood" then I'll put x64 Vista on that thing and keep Vista on my tablet forever, making a time capsule like my Grandpa's Old 80386SL laptop.

I would rather not test a system that I know almost nothing about. I have too much important stuff on my laptop.

i'll probably test it out on my standard play laptop. but i love the vista bashing on here... i dont see much of an issue with vista. i just use mac OSX cause it looks nicer and itunes works much better with it lol.

The first impressions of Windows 7 on netbooks are good.

http://comparenetbooks.org/windows-7-on-your-netbook.html

will wait the for x64 RTM version.

i am gonna follow everyone else here and wait for the public release.
vista is working fine for me though

I''ll probably just stick to xp.

Wow way to post old news Danny it has been leaked out for at least a month.^^
Also I dont know if you ever noticed that all microsoft betas leak out.^^

I'm a *nix user and I only log into windows about twice a month for FFXI. WINE is making progress so I doubt I'll need to be doing it much once FFXI works on WINE.

I'm staying away from it until they fix it's bugs, if there is bugs which I think it will have! x_x

Sticking to XP until they stop providing security updates for it. Don't see the point of upgrading unless you want the latest in technology or maybe the Aero theme? Also best to wait some time even after public release. Remember what happened with Vista. Retailers were almost shunning it because of all the bugs during the first release.

Windows 3.1 ftw! LOL~~~

@ everyone who is doubtful about Win7

I'm a Mac user, been using Macs for years and years, before that used Windows since I first got a computer, and am using both Vista and OS X daily.

Now, with that said, I've now been using Windows 7 for a few month and I must say that I'm genuinely impressed with it. Now, sure it still has minor bugs here & there, but in general, considering that this is still only beta 1, this is extremely solid and can definitely be used as an everyday OS.

Will it make me switch back from OS X? Probably not - the reason I use OS X is simply because it feels more "polished" to me; text rendering is infinitely better, designers understood minimalism and elegance etc. Windows on the other hand just feels more thrown-together-from-random-parts-from-200-independent-teams.

anyways bla bla bla - while it won't make me switch back, it will definitely make using Windows ALOT more enjoyable.

Heck yeah... if I can get it to fly in a VM. To install it as a dual-boot, I'd have to reformat. I don't want to do that yet.

I have heard of Window 7 past few months ago but never really go and check it out. I think they leak it so they can get million of free tester in the market. I also heard that it's a replacement for Vista since it's so crappy. User who change to Vista quickly reverted back to XP.

I'm using it right now, downloaded and dual booted as soon as i saw the news yesterday. it's great, and nothing has crashed on me yet, even games :D

I have tried it, and I can vote as there's no option for that, isn't it?

So first off, my BG: I'm a newbie administrator (only been one for around 5 months) who works mostly on Linux, I use Windows Vista at home and have tried out Mac enough to judge that I don't like it. To sum it off, I prefer Windows as my everyday OS.

So about Windows 7 beta 1 there's a few points I wanna state:
- Bare installation size of Vista SP1 Ultimate (swap and hibernation files not included) is around 12GB, Windows 7 is around a little less than 7GB with fewer applications. These applictions IMHO will not result in 5GB different without improvement to reduce the size of the OS itself.
- The Vista Superbar (new Taskbar) is better than the old implement and Linux (Gnome or KDE alike), Mac OSX counterparts. Improved task thumbnails, grouping, Jump Lists for each tasks are very nice features. Some ppl don't like it though as I will post another person review at the end of this.
- Mouse actions to manipulate application windows are welcomed improvements.
Previous two mentioned improvement to the GUI are more prominent than Aero in IHMO. Aero looks good but is mostly useless. These are what I'd call true improvements.
- The OS feels snappier and smoother than Vista which (you might be shocked to hear this) at current state is faster than XP subjectively. I don't care about benchmark for everyday tasks as these are just nice numbers to look at; what important are how you feel working with the OS like: Is it fast? Is it comfortable to work with? Is it easy to get your favorite applications up and running?... Things like that.
- Stability: haven't encountered a crash as of now.
Other guy's review: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3223&tag=btxcsim , if you want benchmarks here u go with a little older build http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3187 and details bench http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3182

Danny whats this? No option for "no" answers for us Mac users? I highly doubt I will ever install Windows 7 on my computers. Maybe my work laptop could get it after XP gets too old but that aint happening any time soon. So not going to try Windows 7 ever, Im happily waiting for Snow Leopard :)

Windows 7 sounds much more assuring compared to windows "VirusIntruderSpywareTrojanAdware".

I may try it out after listening to what the people have to say..

Windows 7 seems much more promising that Vista at the moment. Will wait for the official release before getting it.
Will probably upgrade my XP to Windows 7 once it is released.

nah im good with vista so i'm not trying it

Microsoft + Steve Ballmer: "Exxxceeeellleeeennnnttttt"

I'd take it for a spin but not on my work system. I've heard it's a great improvement from Vista

Not checking it out yet. I'll see what nice independent reviews say.

I agree with Danny, I think they intentionally leak it to get free testers. As unfortunate I am to own Vista right now instead of XP- I really am not going to bother myself with Windows 7. (Because I'm getting a Mac within the next two weeks!) :D

hahahahahah that's RIDICULOUS

they just released VISTA a few years ago, what ? 2 years or something like that

while an OS is supposed to live 5-10 years before being replaced

now that i own a Mac i will never use Windows again, even for free or even if i get paid for it :)

I've been running Win7 on one of my machines since the pre-beta was released. For the record, I've also been running Vista full time since Beta2 (by full time, I mean all machines I used in production were running the beta code).

I'm not really sure about the "free tester" statement though. Microsoft has an extremely large test base without even going to the public. After all, there are 80,000 employees world wide. And yes, I happen to be one of them. Microsoft's greatest strength in the past couple of years has been the ability to run our software through it's paces before even going to a public beta. We "eat our own dogfood," so to speak and run everything in our own production environments. Most of the servers that run our infrastructure are running beta code in one way or another (e.g. Exchange, Win Server, SQL, etc.)

To those who think 7 will be the magic cure all for things that didn't work in Vista, you'll probably be very dissapointed. 7 is built on top of the Vista codebase so compatibility will be much the same. Many of the issues that cropped up with Vista came as a result of securing the OS. UAC not withstanding, there were a lot of gaps that were sealed since XPSP2 and that caused a lot of 3rd party apps to malfunction.

It's a difficult battle, really. Make the OS too secure and people complain because stuff doesn't work. Be too lax about security and people complain that there are too many vulnerabilities. Before anyone starts praising *NIX or MacOS for being secure, they really aren't. They're just a much smaller attack surface for malware writers. A great worm that targets MacOS won't really get that many people. A SQL injection attack, however, will. As does an RCE vulnerability in IE that allows hackers to steal passwords for porn sites.

maybe I'll try it on the laptop which I've been having problems trying to downgrade from Vista -> XP on lol.

I chuckled a bit when I read 3.1. Good times, good times!

Nah...only the interface has changed. Looks same as Vista anyways xD. I will stick with my XP and Vista

I'll probably try out it on a virtual machine, if I can get my hands on it.

I'd wait for the final release, if it's any better than the current Windows.

Tried the last iso of W7 that was on the internets, I liked it , it was all the Vista should have been in the first place. Mind you not that I don't like Vista, I have been running it almost from the day it came out. But if W7 is released then I will start using that instead.

I hate beta. So I'll stick around with Vista until it's final release.

I downloaded the ISO when engadget told us about the leek a few days ago and installed it on an external HD. I think its a really nice blend between Vista's beauty and XP's functionality. When this goes alpha I may leave XP... finally.

Read about this on Gizmodo awhile ago - passed on it, because the beta only lasts until next summer. ^^; I'm not that desperate to try it out, since I'm running Vista just fine. All I'll get is maybe a slight performance boost, and it's not worth the trouble. Besides, Boot Camp doesn't exactly support Win7 at the moment.

I'll keep other commentary about Windows to myself. We've been talking about the pros and cons of Windows (usually versus OSX) and I'm getting rather sick and tired of it. xP

I'm using it right now and it is amazingly like Vista! I'm running it through a Vmware player which if you have not tried yet I suggest you do. It is great for sampling alternative OS's I have had a decent time surfing the intertubes with it but I'm sure it will fail miserably when it comes to compatibility and game performance. I wonder how well Vista was adopted in Japan? Any one have any numbers?

Sticking to my Leopard :)

Companies intentionally leak there product early either to promote or test for bugs

Hmmm. I don't know /: I think I'm going to stick with vista, although I'll probably try 7 out. I'll be switching to mac in a couple of years so good luck impressing me Microsoft. (:

Sticking to ubuntu and will wait until service pack 1

I'd stick with XP for now but maybe I could try it when the official release comes out.

Wasn't it going to be called Windowa Viena? O_o

Personally, I'll stick with XP. Anyway, if I wanted to change OS I'd get Leopard, not Vista nor a beta new Windows.

Not too interested in Windows 7 atm but will upgrade when its officially released. Seems like just a beefed-up version of Vista to me

I have 7 desktops and 1 laptop, and none of them are powerful enough to run it. :(
But it doesn't look very different from Vista, so I stick with my Slackware/XP dual-boot setup for now.

Well, its beta. Anyway just like Zakari-kun, none of my coms able to run it. Coz 1 is a G4 Quicksilver and the other is a 1.8 P4 laptop. I still love OSX & WinXP SP2.

I'll stick to Vista for now.
A strategy that has always worked not only for Microsoft products, but for most things: Skip beta, skip release date, wait for several reviews and for Microsoft OSs, wait for first service pack at least.

Service Pack 1 is the only reason why I'm using Vista right now.

I tried it out on the previous beta release. It was very stable for a beta and ran much quicker than Vista and with far less memory usage! It looks to be a pretty good upgrade so far--O just hope they can figure out something better than the Super Bar...It's pretty much a less useful copy of the Mac's Dock. Personally I'd like to see them try to actually do a bit of experimentation...but Microsoft would never actually be innovative. >.>

i will wait for a public release

i dont get it.....

XP does everything I want it to, so I'll wait until I build a new computer to try Windows 7.

Windows 7 really might improve things over Vista, we'll see! Leaks would be hard to explain to investors, and these companies are trading publicly, so I doubt it ;)

But free publicity nonetheless!

You guy can't believe that an illegal Windows 7 Ultimate DVD costs less than 1 USD and a legal version costs upto 200 USD in Vietnam. At this moment, I'm waiting for an english version of Nanami Madobe. Anyone with me?