Beastage Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Yea I think the actual beta time bomb is about 6 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme2damax Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Will I need to pay money for a subscription to access the beta or will it be a public beta that anyone can access and provide feedback/bug reports on? It would a bummer if I needed money to access the beta as I don't have any money at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Will I need to pay money for a subscription to access the beta or will it be a public beta that anyone can access and provide feedback/bug reports on?It would a bummer if I needed money to access the beta as I don't have any money at the time. It's a public beta. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atleeit Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 (edited) legally you are alloud to re-arm windows beta upto 120 days max, search on google and Microsoft will give you the DOS command to reset the timelimit or run command. The OS will only allow 3 then lockup :) If you do about Windows, it will tell you how many re-arms you have left. But it's going publically so you wont have to do this. Edited January 7, 2009 by atleeit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme2damax Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 It's a public beta. :) Well that is great news. From what I've been hearing and reading of Windows 7, I think I'm going like it..... a lot, even more so than Vista. :D However I am unable to register on the connect site at the time, I'm getting errors galore and it displays the IIS error page saying I'm not authorized to access that page, if I refresh the page then I can load it fine but am still unable to register for connect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowl Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Nearly no one is able to go on connect... Proably because its the 7th over here in AUS ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atleeit Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 LOL man connect.microsoft.com is perfectly fine, it's not even released on there and it's night time in the US they won't release it at night. Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannlich Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I cannot access connect.microsoft.com from my pc, and haven't been able to for some time now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme2damax Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 legally you are alloud to re-arm windows beta upto 120 days max, search on google and Microsoft will give you the DOS command to reset the timelimit or run command.The OS will only allow 3 then lockup :) If you do about Windows, it will tell you how many re-arms you have left. But it's going publically so you wont have to do this. I thought the official beta will come with some type of time limited key, so you won't need to re-arm the install? :s Nearly no one is able to go on connect... Proably because its the 7th over here in AUS ^^ Something tells me there won't be a release until after midnight, possibly eastern standard time, that is if the public beta is actually scheduled for the 7th.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atleeit Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 (edited) No errors for me ;) Edited January 7, 2009 by atleeit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaks Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Its fine now and fast. P.S-This is from the other side of the World - Wellington, New Zealand :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hidr0 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 (edited) works fine for me too.... Latin America Edited January 7, 2009 by Hidr0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowl Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 ??? What?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme2damax Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 No errors for me ;) Had to use IE7... However I only have one thing on my dashboard, the Visual Studio Registration benefits where you have multiple things, where can I find beta programs to join and participate in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afusion Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 ??? What?? Nice Drivers Buddy! :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowl Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Nice Drivers Buddy! :rofl: Uh... What? Nice drivers buddy? I dont see any drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afusion Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Uh... What? Nice drivers buddy? I dont see any drivers well your page couldn't be displayed and I saw your wlan card reception going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiallG Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I've been signed up to MS Connect for a while but it's been that long i forgot how to signup to new betas. Any idea how to sign up to the W7 on connect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hidr0 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 they pick you... not the other way around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_st Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Im assuming Ill be able to dual boot just like Vista/XP. In other words it will be done automatically at installation.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fix-this! Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 they pick you... not the other way around this is a public beta so i don't think you need an invite do you ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trek Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 this is a public beta so i don't think you need an invite do you ? The public beta would probably be distributed from the windows 7 site. It wouldn't use Connect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowl Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 well your page couldn't be displayed and I saw your wlan card reception going. Are you serious? Wow. I dont know how my reception is going when the whole 5 bars are FULL. Thats how its displayed. Im using build 6801 fyi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atleeit Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 Click on connection directory to sign up to more categories :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afusion Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Are you serious? Wow. I dont know how my reception is going when the whole 5 bars are FULL. Thats how its displayed. Im using build 6801 fyi. my bad, it's not good of me to jump to conclusions like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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