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Windows 7 Beta 1 Review
I4U News — ... . Quote from the review: "Windows 7 has a far fewer applications to look at than XP and Vista. Gone are applications such as Windows Mail, Windows Messenger, Movie Maker and so on. Anyone wanting apps of this sort will need to download then via Windows Live Essentials. Paint and Wordpad now incorporate the Ribbon UI found in Microsoft Office and seems to have received a little TLC by Microsoft programmers." Read the full Windows 7 beta 1 review on ZDNet . With the Windows 7 beta already looking pretty stable a mid-year release of Windows 7 is possible, but will be good ...

Windows 7 beta 1 coming soon; already reviewed
Boy Genius Report — The first official beta of Microsoft’s knight in shining GUI will soon be issued but reviews are already beginning to pop up around the internet. No, it’s not the first look we’ve had of the upcoming OS but it is the first in a line of official betas we’ll see previewed before launch-time. Of course everyone’s first impression is “wow, it looks like Vista,” but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Vista’s problems at this point after all, are most definitely not cosmetic; in fact many enjoy Vista’s clean ...

Windows 7 beta 1 reviewed, promises the world and more
CrunchGear — ... It’s about time Microsoft released an OS worthy of some hype and excitement. Mark my words, fiends: Windows 7 will be Microsoft’s watershed OS. If it’s not, then MS in in serious trouble. Like Palm, Windows is beloved, hated, and long overdue for an overhaul. Unlike Palm, Microsoft’s executives have so much money that they line hamster cages with it. That’s why I’m particularly interested in this review of beta 1: it has all the promise of Palm’s Nova with the means to deliver. ...

Linkpost | 12.29.2008
TechBlog — ... - Among them: Macs as "soft targets" and cell phones as a new frontier for attack. • Windows 7 beta 1 review - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes calls it the "best beta build of an OS from Microsoft that I've ever seen". • ...

Windows 7 Beta 1 Out in the Wild [Windows 7]
Lifehacker — ... Consumer Electronics Show (running Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas), but, well, you know how the internet works by now. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet's Hardware 2.0 blog says the M1 build is strikingly similar to the M3 "preview" builds some folks (including one or two editors at this site) have been previewing for weeks . One big difference: The features previously hidden away (though un-lock-able with the "Blue Badge" ) are all offered by default in M1 Kingsley-Hughes says Windows 7 installs faster than XP or Vista, and likes many of the features we ranked as ...

Windows 7: Some Minor Improvements, No Game Changer (MSFT)
Silicon Alley Insider — The first advance reviews of Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 7 Beta are starting to circulate, and here's what we know so far: It looks and feels a lot like Vista, but adds a handful of minor performance and UI improvements. From Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDnet: Software and hardware that worked under Windows Vista will still work under Windows 7, hugely important in encouraging upgrades. Windows 7 install times are below half an hour, good for Microsoft. Some user-interface changes are in the works, most of them good. New ...

Merry Christmas extremely bored men - Windows 7 beta hits the torrent sites
Tech Digest — ... If you haven't already had ENOUGH of BLOODY WINDOWS after having Vista forced down your throat and onto your hard drive, you may now start worrying about driver incompatibilities anew - Windows 7 has been leaked. The Beta 1 build of the next MS OS, which has been reviewed very favourably by a man here and is scheduled for a much wider beta test early next year - has popped up on Bittorrent for downloading. A good 20,000 or so users are currently nicking Windows 7 off ...

Leaked Copies of Windows 7 Beta 1 Hit BitTorrent
Wired: Epicenter — ... That said, ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports that the latest build is, if nothing else, much more stable than its predecessors, going to far as to say that “this is the kind of code that you could roll out and live with… [it] exceeds the quality of any other Microsoft OS beta that I’ve handled.” ...

Windows 7 Beta Leaked on BitTorrent
Portfolio.com: Tech Observer — ... That said, ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports that the latest build is, if nothing else, much more stable than its predecessors, going to far as to say that "this is the kind of code that you could roll out and live with... [it] exceeds the quality of any other Microsoft OS beta that I've handled." ...

Windows 7 beta: first impressions
TechBlog — ... was this stage in its development. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and say my early take is that it's a much better product, even as a beta, than Vista is now. Obviously, that assessment is subject to change . . . . There's a lot more, but I'll save it for subsequent posts and a column or two. In the meantime, I can recommend some other sources for more detailed reviews from folks who've been using it for a while: • Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' first look at Windows 7 beta 1 , his more detailed review and a limited performance comparison between XP, Vista and Win7 . ...