Windows7

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Piet

Hi, can anyone please tell me how to get info about Windows 7 ? In the past
I used to get
Beta copies of Vista, and would certainly like to share in that option
again, with 7

regards

Piet
 
J

John Barnes

Windows 7 is still pre-beta. When the public beta is available I'm sure you
will see plenty of news. If you want to try for the pre-beta trials, you
can sign up on Windows Connect and you will be screened for qualifications.
 
M

Mike Brannigan

Piet said:
Hi, can anyone please tell me how to get info about Windows 7 ? In the
past I used to get
Beta copies of Vista, and would certainly like to share in that option
again, with 7

regards

Piet
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

The Beta 1 release will not happen until Q1 2009. The only build currently
legally released was build 6801 that was distributed to attendees of the US
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008. This build will not be
made available legally to anyone else.
 
J

John Barnes

Actually Windows 7 is production at the SP2 level. Look familiar. You must
complete this survey in order to participate in the Windows 7 SP2 Beta. :)

Rick Rogers said:
Actually Mike that build was also given to a select set of MVP's in
certain technologies as well.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
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M

Mike Brannigan

Rick,

I was aware of the MVP distribution as well as the certain other dev partner
distributions too, but I confined my comment to the publically accessible
sources as discussion beyond that would be of no real relevance to a member
of the general public interested in gaining pre-release access to the
product
--
Mike Brannigan
Actually Mike that build was also given to a select set of MVP's in
certain technologies as well.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
Click to expand...
 
M

Mike Brannigan

John Barnes said:
Actually Windows 7 is production at the SP2 level. Look familiar. You
must complete this survey in order to participate in the Windows 7 SP2
Beta. :)
Click to expand...

Nonsense.

Windows 7 is still currently pre-beta (presently between M3 and M4).
Windows Vista SP2 is currently in testing, but the 2 test programs are not
related.

--

Mike Brannigan

John Barnes said:
Actually Windows 7 is production at the SP2 level. Look familiar. You
must complete this survey in order to participate in the Windows 7 SP2
Beta. :)
Click to expand...
 
R

Rick Rogers

Hi Mike,

I mentioned it because with that particular build those given the bits were
told they were free to blog about and discuss it publicly. I'm not aware of
any that have yet, but there is no restriction on it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

Mike Brannigan said:
Rick,

I was aware of the MVP distribution as well as the certain other dev
partner distributions too, but I confined my comment to the publically
accessible sources as discussion beyond that would be of no real relevance
to a member of the general public interested in gaining pre-release access
to the product
Click to expand...
 
J

John Barnes

What is your source, Rick. Everywhere I have seen anything it is NDA.

Rick Rogers said:
Hi Mike,

I mentioned it because with that particular build those given the bits
were told they were free to blog about and discuss it publicly. I'm not
aware of any that have yet, but there is no restriction on it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
Click to expand...
 
B

BChat

John,

Where do you sign up?, I have gone to Connect, signed in, and see no sign up
option
Thanks,
BChat

Windows 7 is still pre-beta. When the public beta is available I'm sure you
will see plenty of news. If you want to try for the pre-beta trials, you
can sign up on Windows Connect and you will be screened for qualifications.
 
J

John Barnes

It won't be there until it is available for a given profile. Generally you
will receive an e-mail invitation first.
 
B

BChat

Thanks John.

It won't be there until it is available for a given profile. Generally you
will receive an e-mail invitation first.
 

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