Windows 7 available now - on BitTorrent sites

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Sunday, 02 November 2008 11:05

Opinion and Analysis

TPB user “the_nakaii” said: “Yeah this wuz just a waste of BW and time. Just more Microbullshit. All this is is a thirty trial of Vista with new eyecandy. As for downloading speed, I'm tired of you people complaining about low down speeds and recommending bitspirit and azureus even utorrent is silly.

“I use the good old stand by Bittorrent 6.1 and I got speeds on this down that averaged 150kb/s. If you set up BiTtorrent 6.1 correctly and use the TCP/IP patch that is out for XP and set it for 100 and use a modern browser that you can tweak like firefox you can do the same. I even researched Windows 7 and the blurbs about it are nuts!!. It definetly will not give Linux a run for its money! lol!lol! Are they drunk?” concluded “the_nakaii”.

The download appears to be an .ISO file at 2.75GB in size, which is a hefty chunk of download limit to chew up on a pre-beta OS.

In addition, online criminals have already started spreading Trojans and spyware, with one download claiming to be a Windows 7 “new taskbar” enabled, but the comments note that it is a Trojan which sniffs out a user’s Vista activation key and emails it to a Gmail address.

Personally, I’ll be asking Microsoft for a copy, and hopefully they’ll supply one so I can give it a go, but the beta version to get will be the one set for release in December, which will come with the new taskbar features enabled.

It will also be interesting to see how Microsoft evolves Windows 7 for use on netbooks.

Although Dell has confidently loaded Windows Vista onto its new 12-inch Atom-powered netbook, most netbooks use Windows XP or a version of Linux, primarily because both XP and Linux are less resource intensive than Vista and because Atom processors aren’t as powerful as Core 2 Duo (or better processors).

But as always, Microsoft has promised that Windows 7 will be faster than its predecessors, and expectations upon Microsoft to fully deliver on these promises are very high, especially after Vista’s unhappy start.

No doubt the more fanatical Linux devotees who refuse to believe that Microsoft can do it, or indeed do anything right, are also watching to see if Microsoft will succeed or fail, with either outcome sure to evoke plenty of heated debate over Windows 7 vs any distro of Linux you can name.

In the meantime, plenty of people can’t wait and are happily downloading the first “pre-beta” of Microsoft’s next OS... Windows 7.