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[Denholm]

  MagicAndre1981 said:

got it with 3MB/s from Technet :)

You win. But sadly I still have nearly 7 hours left. Australian broadband sucks, mostly.

[MagicAndre1981]

the servers are too slow, if I have full speed I can download with over 10MB/s here at university :D

[Strayer]

Is there also a german version? I heard that the first beta will be translated...

Edit:

Just found this, so I answered the question for myself... ;)

The Windows 7 Beta will be available in English, German, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi, and each language will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions (except Hindi which will only be available in 32-bit).

Edited January 8, 2009 by Strayer

[+FloatingFatMan Subscriber¹]

  seb5150 said:

Downloading the x64 version on MSDN! Keys are available too! File name: en_windows_7_beta_checked_build_dvd_x64_x15-29064.iso

Why are you downloading the checked build? Are you a driver developer? You DO know the checked builds are full of debug code and don't have any optimisations enabled, right? They're slower than the normal builds as they provide full debug info for driver developers and aren't really intended for general use or OS testing...

[MagicAndre1981]

  Strayer said:

Is there also a german version? I heard that the first beta will be translated...

yes, I've downloaded the German ISOs.

de_windows_7_beta_dvd_x86_x15-29077.iso

SHA1: C14B313FD974E692DA9B265466897F4F7695F596 ISO/CRC: DE5C586D

de_windows_7_beta_dvd_x64_x15-29078.iso

SHA1: 05691C979E23ABE31F64B3725A03A4C4CE7A5DDF ISO/CRC: 2412516C

But I can't generate a key :(

[hanko panko]

  MagicAndre1981 said:

yes, I've downloaded the German ISOs.

de_windows_7_beta_dvd_x86_x15-29077.iso

SHA1: C14B313FD974E692DA9B265466897F4F7695F596 ISO/CRC: DE5C586D

de_windows_7_beta_dvd_x64_x15-29078.iso

SHA1: 05691C979E23ABE31F64B3725A03A4C4CE7A5DDF ISO/CRC: 2412516C

But I can't generate a key :(

Tonight/Tomorrow the Public Beta will go live. I expect you will be able to get some keys than!

So just install now and change your key later :)

[redeemed]

  MagicAndre1981 said:

the servers are too slow, if I have full speed I can download with over 10MB/s here at university :D

Off topic: How come universities always have such fast internet? One day I dropped past the local branch of UWS (of course I had to check the speed of their intarwebz :laugh:) and it was 20Mbps/20Mbps :blink:

[MagicAndre1981]

  hanko panko said:

I expect you will be able to get some keys than!

I got my keys now :)

[Cask1]

I was indeed ready to install this morning, installing right now on my test Dell Laptop, let's see how it goes :)

[sjaak327]

Well apparently the technet site is taking a severe hammering, my download speed goes from 1000 kb/s to 100 then up to 500 down and then it stops, with an error message, have to manually resume the download using the FTM. I must have pressed resume at least 10 times now, and in about two or three hours, I only have 28%...

Many subscribers are apparently downloading this :)

[BajiRav]

Damn. Can't get keys off MSDN. :s