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Windows 7 Beta

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The Windows 7 Beta was to have been released to the general public and you were to get the beta through the Windows 7 page at Microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/. Having went to the page and looking around, I clicked on IT Pro. From there a page comes up and says basically that the interest in Windows 7 was so great that were experiencing some problems because of the heavy traffic. They will be adding more resources so that the download experience will be better and then will be posting the beta. Check out this link to the Windows 7 Team Blog for the latest information. 

If you went to TechDays here in Canada, remember that free TechNet subscription you received in your box of Techie Crunch? Well, here is a chance to get some value from it. Go hit the TechNet site and download Windows 7 from there.

If you don’t have a TechNet or MSDN subscription sit tight and know you will be able to get it soon.  Apparently, Windows 7 was showing up before the beta went live in the torrent streams, but it wasn’t the correct version in some cases, as you can see in this post on Softpedia . My suggestion is to wait it out and get the correct version straight from Microsoft. Don’t waste your time and bandwidth downloading something that may be no good, or worse, tampered with and made into a security risk.

 

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Windows 7 Now Available on TechNet

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Windows 7 Beta 1 is now available to TechNet subscribers. The 64 bit and 32 bit versions are in the downloads section, along with a hot fix, language packs and a drivers pack.

I though it was Interesting to see the instructions to the DVD, “backup all MP3 files before installing Windows 7”. That hot fix in the directory also needs to be installed which solves the mp3 issue. The problem with Windows 7 and MP3s is covered by a Knowledge Base Article, (kb961367) and information about the problem can be found at BlogsDNA.

Be sure to check it out.

Windows 7 Paint

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Paint - Scenic Ribbon 

A quick one this week. Paint has received a visual makeover in Windows 7 but the guts of it are pretty much the same as in Windows Vista. It now has the ribbon bar similar to what you would find in Microsoft Office 2007. This makes everything in paint easy to find so you don’t have to go through menus to find everything. You can save file in Bmp, tif, jpg, png and gif formats.  You also get the option to send the file in email from the paint program.