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Download the Windows 7 (desktop OS) Beta

Windows 7 Beta (the next version of the Windows desktop operating system) is available! It was released on Friday and, if you are interested in taking it for a spin, you can download it from here.

This blog link from the Windows 7 product team has some details on downloading and installing it.

Note: The next version of the embedded Windows product will be based on Windows 7 binaries (code named "Quebec"), but it is still under development. We'll keep you updated on our progress in future blog posts.

- Lynda

Technorati Tags: Xpe,Embedded, Win7

Posted: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:31 AM by Embedded
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Peter E said:

One has to ask, will it be bogged down with all the DRM paranoia nonsense that has afflicted Vista.

If so, I can envisage sticking with XP embedded as long as possible and then some.

The thought of having to bump up the hardware specs significantly (and thus costs, etc.) just to cope with hollywood inspired evil does not appeal to me in the slightest.

# January 13, 2009 11:49 PM

David said:

I am *very* excited about the embedded version of 7 - XP is starting to show its age and I am hesitating to start a new project on it. However, I can't stress enough how important it is that you keep the footprint and boot time down and go even further in componentization than XP did. That means, for example, not having to deal with DRM overhead if I don't require my device to play back DRM protected content. This is so much more important that 64-bit support.

I also hope that deployment and servicing will be much improved. What will be possible with WIM and VHD files? I look forward to more "embedded only" features like write filters etc. We need something better than the Simple Update Agent without having to go all Systems Center on the device.

Another wish I have is that it will be possible to join a device to a domain and then be able to be very selective about exactly which group policies that are applied. No software install. No random registry keys set, except for a small category that I can control and test.

Finally, if you would make the source available like you do for CE and .NET, that would be just super. kthxbye.

# January 14, 2009 4:02 PM
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