Win7

[Hellfighter]

good news for Aussies (AUS)
you may get Windows 7 for free as a free upgrade

Story from Lifehacker Australia

The Tech ARP web site nabbed a draft "Technical Guarantee Program" from Microsoft that implies anyone buying a PC from major vendors after July can receive a Windows 7 upgrade for free.

Microsoft wouldn't confirm, but didn't truly deny, the implied upgrade program when Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley asked.

And an official release date, isn't set for Windows 7, though Foley hears third quarter 2009, and Microsoft will only officially say early 2010. So new PC buyers might want to hold off if they're geeked for a fixed-up Vista—depending on one's faith in Microsoft ship dates, of course.

source: http://www.popsci.com.au/gear-amp-ga...ree-after-july

[.Simon.]

Im sure Vista came as a free upgrade with a lot of computers when it was released. I know my dad's laptop had Windows XP Media Edition, but came with a free upgrade for Vista.

[Steve]

iirc Dell and some other manufacturers were having a lot of problems reported by end users so they went back to xp for a short while, all those systems were supplied with a vista dvd also

[atholon]

Public release of the beta is tomorrow:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...&intsrc=kc_top

[.Simon.]

I may download the legit version then 8-)

[DevilDog#1]

Got to wait couple more days. MS' Beta site crashed.

[atholon]

Hahaha! n00bs

[.Simon.]

Yeah xD They're adding 'extra infrastructure' to the site

[Steve]

tbh MS are probably happy their new software has attracted more interest than they expected... well unless it was some kind of DOS attack on the server

[.Simon.]

Yeah your probably right, certainly after Vista.

[atholon]

I Still think it is lame that they didn't add the extra infrastructure to begin with.

[.Simon.]

Yeah lol. But lately ive started using the Windows Essentials programs, so i Microsoft is on my good side ;P Usually i'de make fun of them for somthing like this.

I hope im not becoming a fanboy =/

[Steve]

you can hate Apple, but becoming a windows fan boy is gonna get you in trouble around these parts heheh

[Steve]

[IcIshoot]

the download site is backup....

2.44Gb dvd image, currently downloading @ 66KB/sec

Going to take 10 hours to download at that rate lol

[Scott]

Downloading now at 1.5mb/sec from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...-download.aspx

[.Simon.]

Which one you all downloading, 32 or 64bit versions?

[.Simon.]

Mine isnt downloading =/ Ive got to the page with the product key etc, but when i click download, it doesnt do anything.

[Steve]

Originally posted by .Simon.
Which one you all downloading, 32 or 64bit versions?

64bit is 3.x gig i think

[.Simon.]

Hm well i can't download either at the moment ;P