Since Vista is such an ill-engineered product and a resource hog, I decided to stick to XP when I bought a new laptop recently. Even though I'm a fan of Jerry Seinfeld I will certainly never switch to Vista. In the future I might rather switch to a Linux distro (Ubuntu maybe) or to Mac OS X, who knows. I'm curious about Windows-7 and so I tried a pre-beta build which I got as an ISO image from somewhere.
The first impression is quite encouraging, especially the memory consumption which is only around 300MB! Looks nice and sleek, probably built upon the XP code base and not upon Vista.
Yesterday I heard that an official beta will become available soon here
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
When I visited the page yesterday, it said that the download link would be enabled "during the afternoon" of Jan 9. But today the page all of a sudden says:
"Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal—we're in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We're sorry for the delay and we'll re-post the Beta as soon as we can ensure a quality download experience."
Well, for the ultimate download experience one can always try a bittorrent search ;-)
I'm a software architect in the field of mobile applications, middleware and enterprise systems integration. I'm also CTO and Co-Founder of Vipera Ltd - a mobile banking solutions provider. This blog is about noteworthy technological events and interesting things occurring in my professional life.
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