Windows-7-trial for all.

The new Windows is almost ready: The last pre-release before the market since Tuesday is for download, for a year must be tested. An important new feature but is not yet implemented. But the free will soon be replaced.

 

Bye bye Vista. Since Tuesday morning, the so-called
Release Candidate (RC) of Windows 7 as a free download for everyone on Microsoft's servers. Program developers may use the software has been downloaded a few days. Especially you have to hurry but do not: at least until the end of July, the download is available, the number of users is not limited. Good for one year may be the pre-release through its paces to test before it on 1 June 2010 the service recruits.

With the release of the RC version of Windows 7 would be fully on schedule, they say at Microsoft. Typically such software is a preliminary publication of the last before the finished product in the market. Using the RC should be tested whether all the previously released beta version bugs have been removed completely and whether any new functions smoothly.

Officially, Microsoft has until the end of time given to the new Windows to be completed. Possible way but it could give an early start. The Acer Europe Vice Chief Massimo D'Angelo slipped at a press event a few days ago, the statement revealed that his company already in October, the first computer with a Windows-7-technology on the market will bring. While D'Angelo immediately tried to qualify his statement, Acer is the UK marketing boss Bobby Watkins Tech Blog
Pocketlint 23 October as the start date confirmed.

Also for Netbook

Windows 7 will be a number of errors and limitations, which constrain a broad success for Windows Vista have prevented. Among other things, support for touch-screen computer already integrated. Unlike its predecessor, the new version also only comparatively low demands on hardware are. The Release Candidate is approximately satisfied with a 1 GHZ processor, 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB disk space, but needs a graphics card, the Microsofts graphics supports DirectX 9 technology. But that should not be a problem, most equipment has already been done for many years.

Thanks to the modest hardware requirements, the software on most Netbook install. How well Windows 7 to the Low-down laptops can run, have admittedly only tests prove.

To join the Microsoft Download commercially, you need absolutely a Windows Live ID, which is free of charge on
Live.com can. In addition, you should have a fast Internet connection. The 32-bit version of Windows 7 is 2.48 GB in size, the 64-bit version takes it even at 3.18 GB. And finally you need a DVD burner and a blank DVD, because Microsoft delivers the pre-release in the form of a CD image from the first CD to be burned before you can install the software.

Windows XP comes after

If the software is downloaded and burned to the disc, can Windows 7 as an update of an existing Vista with Service Pack 1 installed. Microsoft recommends, however, made a complete reinstallation. It also recommends the company, prior to installing all the important data in a secure backup - a tip, which you should not close.

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Netzwelt-Ticker: Windows 7 Beta now without quantity limit (12.01.2009)

The successor to Vista: How Windows 7 PCs will change (31.10.2008)

Sealing should be opposed Window-7-versions, for example, in sharing networks to download. The Technology Blog Expert warns that some of these versions were infected with malicious software.

Interesting it should be anyway, the previously announced Windows XP-based emulation software to provide, in the Release Candidate is not included. The virtualization software on the
Virtual PC-based software package would still resound in the course will be unlocked. After its installation should be Windows XP-based programs in Windows 7 can run seamlessly in the new system.

So something has also been requested for Vista, but its time is now gone for good, even if the hapless Microsoft Windows XP's successor until 2011 still will offer to purchase.