Microsoft Windows 7 is 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.
This is the 32-bit version of Windows 7.
You can directly download from this URL, but you'll need to paste it into your browser's address bar.
Reviewing Release Candidate 1 (RC) (Sep 2, 2009)
After 2 month use suddenly the start menu totally empty
no more see program files
unusable forever
just use xp or 9x
Reviewing Release Candidate 1 (RC) (May 12, 2009)
Ah, this should've been what Vista was supposed to be except with lower hardware requirements without the obvious performance hit. The look has been upgraded of course and I think some of the artists of those wallpapers must be smoking something. Talk about psychedelic. I'm not a fan of the taskbar but perhaps I need to give it more time. One thing of note is that it did not automatically download all the needed drivers. Don't know who to blame on that one: Microsoft or the manufacturers. So prepare to have your stuff not work. That said, what did they do to the media player? IT SUCKS. Looks like its main purpose is to hawk Microsoft products. Go back to version 10 and try again, please. UAC is still annoying as ever. Turn the slider all the way down to save your sanity. And speaking of software, no, your old XP software won't work -- not even in compatibility mode.
Reviewing Release Candidate 1 (RC) (May 10, 2009)
@ UniversityofKentucky - That isn't actually Windows fault (For once). Windwos can't install to ext(n) partitions so what you needed to do was either create a second partition with NTFS or FAT32 or reformat your whole HDD. In any case, if this release is a flop I'm going full linux, if not I'm going to keep XP or switch to Win 7 (Dual-boot still).
Really cool! Mind blowing work guys.Microsoft is the best.
well,i was thinking about trying out new windows 7 but i have some doubt in my mind .as microsoft's windows vista wasnt able to pull the good reviews,its predecessor XP is far better than it vista...i have been hearing the news from the web about the market reviews for windows 7 ,they were disappointing
like this one
http://www.techgodown.co...s-has-to-face-tall-odds/