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万众期待的Windows 7 Beta在今天午夜终于开放了下载试用，不过由于流量太大，规模庞大的微软服务器也很快就不堪重负，一直提示“Server is too busy”。
就在刚才，微软悄然撤掉了TechNet相关页面，只留下了简单的一句话：“Windows 7 Beta Coming Soon!”
微软的一位发言人表示，由于服务器过于繁忙，Windows 7 Beta的公开测试项目已经被关闭并推迟，但还没有决定何时重新开始。
其实，已经有人搞到了Windows 7 Beta英文旗舰版的官方下载链接，但只能说是泄露版，还不确定是否和即将放出的公开测试版是否完全一致，而且由于没有评估序列号，安装后只能免费试用30天，否则能一直用到8月1日。 顺便推荐两个很重要的相关文档，都是微软刚刚放出来的，分别解释了Windows 7 Beta里一些需要特别注意的地方，以及已知的重大问题，强烈推荐仔细查阅，以免在使用过程中碰到不必要的麻烦。
最后是微软给出的Windows 7硬件配置需求底线：1GHz处理器、1GB内存、16GB硬盘空间、128MB显存的DX9/10级别显卡……
LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft's excitable CEO SteveBallmer showed off Windows 7 -- the slick, fast,user-friendly successor to the much-maligned Windows Vista -- and saidit will be available as a public beta on Friday.
Unveiled by an intense Ballmer during his keynote address on the eveof CES 2009, Windows 7 will offer better performance on underpoweredmachines such as netbooks, support for multitouch interfaces, andsimplified home networking.
Ballmer said that this would be the "best version of Windows ever"and pointed out features that implicitly acknowledged the problems withWindows Vista.
"We are putting in all the right ingredients -- simplicity,reliability and speed -- and working hard to get it right and to get itready," said Ballmer.
Ballmer's keynote is his first at the big, prestigious CES showsince the departure of Microsoft founder Bill Gates a year ago. Heshowed no signs of stage fright, bounding onstage in a maroon pullover,rubbing his hands together and grinning eagerly.
Microsoft is also eager to get Windows 7 into people's hands giventhe negative reaction to Windows Vista, which was widely panned.Released in 2007, Vista annoyed many customers with its hunger forcomputing resources and its seemingly incessant security notifications.Those notifications were sucha defining characteristic of Vista that they were even satirized inApplecommercials. Despite the criticisms, Microsoft sold 20 million copiesof Vista in the first month, and there are now an estimated 300 million users of Vista worldwide.
According to Ballmer, Windows 7 will be available to developersimmediately, and to the general public on Friday, January 9. It will bea free download from Microsoft's site.
Windows 7 has been widely anticipated since developers got the first glimpse of itat a Microsoft conference earlier this year. Microsoft promises thatthe new OS will have faster startup and shutdown times, fewer securityalerts, and will provide better power management leading to improvedbattery life on laptops.
Microsoft showed off Windows 7's support for multitouch interfaces,simplified home networking, and easier management of peripheral devicessuch as cell phones and digital cameras.
In addition, the OS will have an updated Taskbar, new animateddesktop effects, context-sensitive menus and a smarter desktop searchtool. And it will be svelte enough to run on a netbook with as littleas 1GB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, Microsoft has promised.
This is the only public beta of Windows 7, a company spokespersonconfirmed. The company did not announce the exact date of Windows 7'scommercial release.
Windows 7 is only one part of Microsoft's three-pronged strategy toprovide software for what Ballmer called the "three screens" -- PCs,phones and TVs.
"I believe windows will remain at the center of people'stechnological solar system," Ballmer said, touting the company'sefforts in the mobile, online, and home entertainment markets.
For instance, Ballmer announced that its online software suite,Windows Live Essentials, will be coming out of beta as of tomorrow.
The company announced several Windows Live partnerships, includingone with Facebook, which will allow Facebook users to share contentthat they've uploaded into their Facebook accounts with their WindowsLive accounts. Similar interconnectivity already exists between WindowsLive and Flickr.
Also, Dell will be preloading Windows Live Essentials on its computers, replacing the Google Toolbar.
Ballmer promised a new version of Microsoft's OS for smartphones,Windows Mobile, to come in the first quarter of 2009. This OS willinclude support for Adobe Flash-based apps, including the video playersused on many sites, such as YouTube.
After Ballmer, Microsoft's Robbie Bach took the stage to tout thecompany's Xbox 360 and Xbox Live products. According to Bach, 28million Xbox consoles have been sold to date, and there are 17 millionactive users of the Xbox Live service.
The company will also be releasing two new Halo games in 2009,including Halo Wars, a strategy game that will ship on March 3, andHalo 3: Orbital Drop Shock Trooper.
Wrapping up the keynote, Ballmer and another Microsoft executivegave a demo of a futuristic multitouch application for students thatmade use of many technologies from the company's R&D labs,including automatic document summarizing and highlighting of keypoints, organizing notes along topical timelines, and collaboratingwith other students on a Microsoft Surface-type touch-sensitive table.They also showed what they said was a prototype flexible display,although the image shown on the bendable plastic did not seemparticularly dynamic.
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