Windows 7 build 7048 vs. Windows 7 beta 1 vs. Vista vs. XP performance shootout March 13, 2009

Hey all,

Well, it seems as though Adrian Kingsley-hughes of ZDNet.com has done it again. He has benchmarked the above named Windows OS’s and Build against each other in a thorough way.

Lets see who the winner is shall we:

Tests run on a very capable machine — LINK

Tests run on a moderately capable machine — LINK

It seems as though the latest build of Windows 7 is the best on the more capable machine running as a 64-bit operating system.

However, on the moderately capable machine it seems as though Windows Vista SP1 is best suited there.

Bye!

Windows 7 Beta 1 Officially Available! January 9, 2009

We revealed that Microsoft would be posting a public beta of Windows 7 earlier this week and Microsoft has just made it available on it’s TechNet channels.

Entitled Windows 7 beta customer preview program, the company has posted the beta bits to the Microsoft TechNet pages. Be warned it’s rather slow at the moment. 

According to Microsoft there are 2.5 million keys to go around worldwide so plenty in other words. Microsoft is also providing a QFE patch for the MP3 corruption issues that have plagued build 7000, this should be online shortly as KB961367. It’s extremely important you apply this patch as you may lose parts of your MP3s if the patch is not applied. 

It’s fully confirmed that the beta 1 build is 7000 that leaked shortly after Christmas. Our members have been discussing the Windows 7 availability for the past week in one of our more popular forum threads. According to sources close to Microsoft, the company is significantly further on from build 7000, having posted 7016 internally recently. It’s understood that the development has branched from 7003 onwards ready for the RC/RTM stages. 

Official download page (registration required): 
Windows 7 Beta 1 – 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) 

Direct download links: 
Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 x32 
Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 x64

Courtesy of KezNews.com