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Windows 7 Beta Install Hints At Microsoft's Planned Ship Date

 

Published 1/14/2009 by awolfe@techweb.com (Alexander Wolfe) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

I'm perplexed at all the huffing about the difficulties some people had installing the Windows 7 Beta. If you had patience -- or did the download over the weekend in the dead of night, when Microsoft's servers weren't overloaded -- it wasn't a problem. (I know, I really should get a life.) More interesting is that fact that the beta provides strong hints about Microsoft's release schedule for the operating system. (link)

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