Download Windows 7 -req. Hotmail, MSN Mess, or Passport acc.

[GomJabbar]

This has probably already been posted, but it is not obvious from any of the thread titles. I plan to buy another hard drive to give Windows 7 Beta a spin.

"Have an MSN Hotmail, MSN Messenger, or Passport account? It’s your Windows Live ID." Required for download.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... nload.aspx

[Marin85]

That´s why I always keep a hotmail account as well. When dealing with M$, this may indeed come handy in different situations

[beGi]

And one more thing; download is available through MS until February 10th (unless MS prolongs it, as once already did)... The Beta expires on August 1, 2009...

[Marin85]

Maybe slightly off topic, but what I don´t understand about the how downloading and activation process is why Win 7 prompts for activation once a while claiming that activated it can deliver better feedback to M$

[GomJabbar]

Maybe I don't understand your question, but isn't that the point of the beta release to provide feedback to Microsoft? Assuming that, it is only natural that Microsoft is going to try and get everyone to activate - sooner rather than later.

[Marin85]

Maybe I don't understand your question, but isn't that the point of the beta release to provide feedback to Microsoft? Assuming that, it is only natural that Microsoft is going to try and get everyone to activate - sooner rather than later.

Well, one can run Win 7 beta for 30 days either activated or not activated (if activated, of course for longer than 30 days). The way I understand that prompt is if I activate Win 7, this will improve the feedback my system sends to M$. What I don´t understand is why the status of activation would make any difference to the quality of that feedback? The only thing that I can think of is that M$ wants me to run their beta for longer time than only 30 days so that they will be able to gather more data. Yet this is some very extended interpretation that doesn´t seem to me to have much to do with the prompt in question.

Thanks,

Marin