Windows 7: 2.5m Download Limit Removed

The Windows guys listened and my pal Brandon wrote a post on their team blog yesterday saying Here’s where we stand. Given the unprecedented demand for Windows 7 has led the team to remove the previous limit of 2.5 million downloads they had set. They’ve now extended the download to two weeks (until Jan 24th) so if you still haven’t managed to get it and want to, that should leave plenty of time. I’m “upgrading” every machine in the house and encouraging all of my friends to do the same upgrade a PC as most of them have more than one.

My advice: if you can, you should. (upgrade ONE machine that is…not suggesting you u/g all of them)

Go grab it fromhttps://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx 

NB: The file you will download is an ISO. If you’re not familiar with burning an ISO, I’d highly recommend Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' excellent post on this.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 10, 2009
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• Anonymous
  January 11, 2009
  Hi Steve, Just one comment on the download of Windows 7. I was trying to download it using the download manager (well, there is no other way, right?) but the download never started. As I am running Vista, I tried to run IE with Admin rights and only then it worked. So if someone else is having this issue, now you know how to solve it! :) Regards from Brazil, Mauricio

• Anonymous
  January 11, 2009
  Ian - I'm saying I am upgrading all my machines but not suggesting everyone does the same for suport reasons if nothign else. if the machine runs Vista you'll be fine from a h/w point of view but sofwtare compat I can't be assured of hence best to upgrade one if you can and see how you go. Steve

• Anonymous
  January 11, 2009
  I've been using Windows 7 and the only compatibility issues I have run into are from some virtual drive programs that don't work correctly. However, I've found many that work fine so it's hardly an issue. I've been able to play farcry 2, world of warcraft, call of duty 5, GTA 4, fallout 3, and plenty more games. I've also been using all of the office suite 2007 as well as every adobe CS4 program with no problems at all. I'm actually happier with this build of windows than any other build at any point in time, and this is just a beta.

• Anonymous
  January 11, 2009
  Doesn't the beta not really allow you to "go live/upgrade" when the final version comes out? I'd imagine you'd want to pave your machine(s) and start over.

• Anonymous
  January 11, 2009
  Nicholas - it's not clear yet what the upgrade path will be but if the beta is anything to go by you should be able to do a clean install and all the old stuff goes in to windows.old - normal procedure really for Windows.