Dell has no DVD drive. LOL
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.
ok 25 cents. I’ll have to see it to believe it haha.
Should be done with the download in 30 min.
Mines at 78% now. Not sure how much longer.
Someone wrote a bio on the Kaypro in 2009 on an actual Kaypro? Too funny...
Dell has no DVD drive. LOL
Glad to see you left the dark side of the mac. Im sure swordmaker will come in here to tell you differently though. He is one of the leaders of the Mac cult on FR.
You speak the truth... Can't wait to see the rhetoric Swordmaker will spread once he arrives.
Well I didn’t want to win the 25¢ that way. Can you swap a DVD drive into the Dell and see if it will work then.
Not after a few vodkas. Just gonna try the white machine tonite.
Burning the DVD now. Also making another shep pie, no kraut this time.
Mine finished downloading. My DVD drive is disconnected I have to reboot and reconfigure. Both my hard drives are SATA and so is my DVD drive and the Dell only has 2 SATA ports.
Hmm. Got an error with the first DVD, so trying again.
Public Beta huh? I might try it out in VM under Linux. After all a Beta can’t be any worse that a Gold Release. Just not paying for it. And if it dies, I just close the window.
Only works as an upgrade with XP SP1, so says the blog post.
Zune rocks. I haven’t touched my iPod since April.
The reason you have not heard of these problems is because they are completely atypical. Redangus wanted his new iMac to work just like his Windows computer. Ask some of the other Windows to Mac switchers around here if they agree with Redangus' opinion of the Mac when he says:
"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."
Nice. A graphic of a box that was blue screened on purpose (WXYZ.sys?). Hooked up to a KD too. Good thing Linux never kernel panics.
Processing power and RAM are alway a good thing, no matter what OS you run. Unfortunately, every time, new tech come out, M$ finds a way to render it inert via bloat.
Since Macs can run Windows XP and Vista natively, both of those plus Windows2000 professional, Red Hat LINUX, and Sun Solaris 10 in Virtual Machines, there is absolutely no reason that Pro/ENGINEER could not run on a Mac under BootCamp... or in Apple Mac OS X in a virtual machine using either VMWare Fusion or Parallels Workstation.
Parallels will run the following Operating Systems:
System Requirements - Mac
- Intel-basted Mac required
- 1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended to run Windows Vista)
- 100 MB of hard drive space for Parallels Desktop installation, plus space to allocate to your virtual machine
- Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later
- Internet connection required for online updates
- Requires Windows® or other operating system (not included)
Supported OSs - Microsoft Windows
- Vista
- 2003 Standard Edition SP0
- 2003 Standard Edition SP1
- 2003 Enterprise Edition SP0
- 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1
- 2003 Web Edition SP0
- 2003 Web Edition SP1
- XP SP2 Professional
- XP SP2 Home
- XP SP1 Professional
- XP SP1 Home
- XP SP0 Professional
- XP SP0 Home
- 2000 Professional Edition SP4
- 2000 Server SP4
- 2000 Advanced Server SP4
- NT Workstation 4.0 SP6
- NT Server 4.0 SP6
- ME
- 98
- 95
- 3.11
- 3.1
Supported OSs - Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES3
- Red Hat Linux 9
- Red Hat Linux 8
- Red Hat Linux 7.3
- Debian Linux 3.1
- Fedora Core Linux 4
- Fedora Core Linux 3
- SUSE Linux 10
- SUSE Linux 9.3
- SUSE Linux 9.2
- SUSE Linux 9.1
- SUSE Linux 9.0
- Mandriva Linux 10.1
- Mandriva Linux 10
- Mandriva Linux 9.2
Supported OSs - Other
FreeBSD
- FreeBSD 5.4
- FreeBSD 5.3
- FreeBSD 4.5
- FreeBSD 4.1
OS/2 and eComStation- OS/2 warp 4.5
- OS/2 warp 4
- OS/2 warp 3
- eComStation 1.2
- eComStation 1.1
Sun Solaris- Solaris 10
- Solaris 9
MS-DOS- MS-DOS 6.22
Seems like the crap I hated with Vista initially until I changed it to look more XP like. Hopefully folder options and the graphic display will let me do it. I had to reboot to XP as Windows 7 didn't recognize my Netgear USB adapter so I couldn't get online. My guess is there won't be a driver for it either.
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