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Live Blog: Steve Ballmer's CES 2009 Keynote
A live blog of the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show Steve Ballmer keynote address, with Mary Jo Foley, Paul Thurrott, and Tom Warren.
public beta on Friday
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Goodnight....
MSDN and TechNet DL links are live
Okay thanks goodnight all :)
- Brad John
Almost time to shut this down, sorry
Orion, God, I wish
+1 I've got an iPhone too. At least update the rest of the sites to fit the iPhone better.
- Orion
Haha, that would be great for iPhone users, but apparently Sprint blocks it on BlackBerry devices.
- Jonathan
LOL. The wave 3 home thingy works, or at least fits on the iPhone
- Orion
Dangit, this is what being tired does to you... I just realized I was trying to charge my Zune with a USB cable plugged into... nothing.
- Jonathan
LOL What kinda Zune you got?
- Orion
I'm going to guess you are in GMT -05 or something :P
- Orion
I've got a Zune 4 and a Zune 30.
- Jonathan
Yep. East coast. :P
- Jonathan
Near San Francisco here
- Orion
Argh... I wish I had Windows 7 :P.
- Orion
I'd hate to get it on Friday along with the rest of everyone.
- Orion
Haha, I've been using it since 6519. Well, sort of... I played around with 6519. XD
- Jonathan
What, you a beta tester for Microsoft? Or get it from 'certain sites'?
- Orion
Seeing as 6519 was one of the leaked builds...
- Jonathan
lol, ok then :P, I'm going to assume you probably had gotten the 7000 leak too.
- Orion
Of course! XD
- Jonathan
I got the 7000 leak, but I really hate the hard drive I run it on and the fact that it's 32 bit :P. Also, not even at that computer :P.
- Orion
@Orion: Yeah, mine's an old 160 GB hard drive... it's not even SATA. Worst part of my computer right there.
- Jonathan
I'll be glad to have the 'this copy is not genuine' message go away...
- Jack
LOL, pretty much same here, but my hard drive sooo noisy. Even though the fact that Windows 7 is soo much better, the hdd is too noisy for me :P.
- Orion
Yep, me too!
- Orion
Now what I really can't wait for is the touch screen netbooks. Let's hope they're affordable...
- Jonathan
Oh yeah
- Orion
Well, later folks!
- Jack
well, someone is looking out for me, i will say that.
well. i've gotten a number of post m3 builds... lets just say i never needed to use BitTorrent.
Haha, of course you did, Paul... but you can't say anything about it when that happens! (At least not for a lot of it... XD)
- Jonathan
I guess Microsoft gives stuff to you. You are like the awesomest guy with the awesomest site about Windows ever!
- Orion
BTW Paul, this is Wayne from earlier. :) Just popped in.
- Jack
The downloads are just not going quickly
Jonathan: Actually, they declined to mention the FB deal
I'm just downloading the hot fixes and its totally DOA
Orion: Yeah, On December 23 :)
So I'm curious about the opinions on this one...is there anyone less special than those people on the Windows 7 tech beta?
Haha, they get it tomorrow, right?
- Jonathan
Explain.
- Kevin
Wait never mind. They should just releae it tomrrow to everyone. What's the point in waiting?
- Kevin
how does this work?
- Orion
No early access. No information about timing. No interim builds. They're treated like boobs. Granted, they find about 5 percent of bugs, so I guess it makes sense.
- Paul Thurrott
Well, MS could benefit from bug finding from the general public too.
- Kevin
Anyone get Windows 7 running yet?
- Orion
Haha, that would suck to get accepted into the beta and get it when the public beta comes out...
- Jonathan
lol, yep!
- Orion
@Orion: I've had Win7 running, so yes.
- Jonathan
jonathan: Do they ever get it? :) Actually .. they get ... Home Premium. Yes, really.,
Home Premium? When the rest of the world gets Ultimate? XD
- Jonathan
So, to recap. Windows 7 will be the bee's knees.
Not sure whether to get the beta or wait until the RC.
- Kevin
The beta's amazing as it is, so other than a few performance tweaks, I don't see how the RC will be any different... I'd recommend the beta.
- Jonathan
the beta seems ok
- Carlos
Alright. I'll look into it on Friday. I have Vista on my laptop's second hard drive, so I can just wipe it and use it as a test machine.
- Kevin
Oh yeah, and apparently the beta is only available to a limited number of people... 2.5 million. XD
- Jonathan
I can see high amounts of traffic on Friday.
- Kevin
There will be one RC and then final... I expect RC in Feb/March
You know what that means :)
Kevin: Not tomorow. Now.
Kevin: Yeah, it really is
When do you predict an RC of Windows 7?
- Kevin
Windows Live: http://www.windowslive.com/explore
Haha, I didn't notice that at the bottom before. "Virtual PC is for sissies."
- Jonathan
So did they hint or mention a RTM date or are well still guessing
- Arawak
I noticed the sissies comment too. Im going to have to install it for real anyway, b/c I coulnd't get Aero to work in virtual pc (even with rdp like some sites suggested would work)
- Dan Z
i tested wmp on a rdp session works great, but mpc-hc does not work the same way
- Carlos
maybe hyper-v
- Carlos
Can't wait for Windows Live Suite tomrrow!
- Kevin
OK signing off for the night. Cheers for following guys :)
See ya!
- Kevin
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