I recently read an announcement regarding the release of Windows 7 and discovered that a beta version was going to be available for download on Friday. I thought it sounded like a pretty cool opportunity and went to the Microsoft site on Friday to try and download a copy. However, for whatever reasons (like too many hits killing their servers) they didn’t actually have it available until sometime Saturday.

At any rate, I was able to download a copy and plan to get it installed and test it out sometime in the very near future. I’m not sure when I’m going to have time or when I will post about it, but subscribe to my feed and don’t miss a bit of it. Once I get it up and running and let you all know, if you have any programs, options, or settings that you want me to try or test or install, let me know and I will do my best to test some of those things as well. In this way, my beta testing of Windows 7 will also become your beta testing of Windows 7.

Some of my regular readers might be a bit baffled right now simply because I am very open about the fact that I really like Linux and generally perfer Linux over Windows. While this is true, I am doing this because I’m curious as to what has changed and how much better/different it is from both XP and Vista. My current preferred Windows OS is XP simply because Vista is such a resource hog. According to some of the information I have read currently, Windows 7 is supposed to be closer to XP in terms of resource usage while still having improvements even to the Vista features. Even though it is a Windows OS, I’m still moderately excited about testing it simply because it is new and fresh and has the potential to be a great improvement over the previous releases.