Posted on 01/10/2009 6:29:49 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
Microsoft servers got quite a workout on Friday from potential testers as the company opened public beta testing of Windows 7 to a broad audience– so much so, in fact, that the company decided to delay the beta's opening until it can bring more servers online.
"Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional infrastructure support to the Microsoft.com properties before we post the public beta," said a posting on The Windows Blog at around 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday afternoon. It included a promise to get the beta servers up and running as quickly as possible.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced on Wednesday night that beta test of Windows 7 would be broadened to the general public on Friday. It was made available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers on Wednesday.
Additionally, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) executives have planned a public beta with at least 2.5 million participants. However, apparently they didn't expect everyone to try to get in at once.
"It's starting to look almost like a land rush," said Michael Cherry, operating system analyst at Directions on Microsoft, told InternetNews.com.
As to where to look when the broad public beta is open for business, at press time, a Microsoft spokesperson said the company is referring users to The Windows Blog.
Even now, when I finish writing something with Word I feel the urge to type ^KD.
Windows had been on a 2/12 - 3 year cycle until XP. 95, 98, 2000 (ME), XP (2002
If Windows 7 comes out in June as expected, it will be about 2 1/2 years after Vista. It is really just a return to a normal release cycle after the delay caused by the total rework of Longhorn into Vista.
It’s really not much different from the OSX release cycle.
When I started messing with Vista I did pretty much the same thing.... I like the old Win2000 "classic" look, so the first thing I do with a new XP install is trade in the Fisher-Price look-and-feel for the 2000 look-and-feel. Naturally I did the same with Vista, and I can use it. No big deal.
Unfortunately, initial indications are that among the things Microsoft stripped out of Win7 was the ability to customize things except as prescribed, which is limited.
A friend who got Win7 at WinHEC and has been messing with it claims it has a "You Will Use The New Interface!" mentality.
I'd be interested to know how you fare with it, since your comment suggests that you may try to customize it...
LOL...anything to get past Vista.
My first year of law school including a legal research and writing class. It included a number of exercises meant to force students to write succinctly, such a mini research papers, limited to two type written pages, when five pages would have barely sufficed to cover the material.
I had a PC Clone, but like the typewriters used by some of the older students, it printed on only one, non-kerned, font - Courier. The handful of students with Macs could print in kerned, or proportionate fonts, and jam a lot more material into two pages.
The professor handed out a copy of one such paper, which earned the Mac owning student an "A," as an example of how it should be done by the rest of us lunkheads, who were struggling to compress a mass of material into two pages. I retyped it into my word processor, and showed the professor that the A took up three pages when written in the non-kerned Courier font. If I had turned it in, instead of a guy with a Mac, I pointed out, I wouldn't have gotten an A, but an F for failing to follow instructions. By imposing a page limit that did not account for kerning, the professor was judging papers as much by the capabilities of the word processor they were written on, as by their contents.
The professor resolutely maintained that I was wrong, and that, since the A paper occupied only two pages when it was turned in to him, it was only two pages long, and he never deigned to address, much recognize, the meat of my argument.
I was pretty irate at the time (I couldn't afford to ditch my brand new PC Clone for a Mac), but in retrospect, it was good training. Sometimes a lawyer (and his client) get screwed by a judge who is biased, stupid, or suffering from hemorrhoids.
Let me get this straight. Microsoft takes for ever to deliver Vista..delay, after delay, after delay...and the product is the worst thing this side of Zune...and they rush development of Windows 7 because Vista is so bad....and there are people out there who will download a beta version and have confidence that the final product will actually work. LOL...FOOLS.
Are you at your capacity for RAM?
You’ll be sorry. I know this is a very unpopular opinion on FR, but my wife and I bought an iMac because of all the great press and had it crash twice in the first 3 weeks we owned it. Had to call Mac support to get it up and running again. We were limited on screen resolution to whatever Mr. Jobs thought appropriate. We loaded Office for Mac and every time we turned on the computer Word opened automatically which was very annoying. We found out neither Napster and Rhaposdy applications would run on the Leopard OS and Mac Mail hijacked all our emails from our ATT/Yahoo account. I could go on but it suffices to we repartitioned, loaded Vista and have had no problems since. We haven’t been on the Mac side in 6 month.
If you want to play around with pictures or do grade school projects and posters, and like being told what to do and how to do it get a Mac. If you are computer literate, want to do real adult work, and want to have options and customization potential get a real computer running Windows.
Oh, where to begin...
LOL
But OS X has been called the same thing since 2001 (technically its called MacOS). It seem like every time Microsoft tries to reinvent an OS, they change the name, which just makes the previous release sound like it was a failure. Silly.
Errr, um, OK. Whatever.
Not for laptops. Vista is a nightmare on most laptops simply because you cannot upgrade the memory to the same extent as a desktop.
For those who don't like Vista's new interface the is a switch back to XP classic mode. In my business I have to keep up with the latest Microsoft technology so I'm learning to love Vista.
Bttt
Yes, it doesn't have Vista in its name.
It's supposed to be almost as good as XP.
Lol!
To paraphrase an old geezer tune:
“In the year 2525,
WinXP is still alive...”
MS oughta take this opportunity to learn:
When you have something that people like and want and are willing to pay for, don’t just throw it away. Takes way less effort (and moolah) to improve existing stuff than create something new.
Yep.
Thanks for the report. I have not heard of these sort of problems. I’m a semi pro photographer and full time Realtor. I have an old system in my office running XP. It has half the processing power and RAM yet runs faster than my newer desktop. I process large photo files in CS2 to create art works. It takes several minutes for some actions to run.
I’m running a Celeron processor and have been told that is a big part of the problem. Maybe it is time to upgrade the mother board with a dual core beast.
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