{"id":170,"date":"2009-01-21T21:53:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/2009\/01\/21\/windows-7-beta\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T21:58:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T21:58:26","slug":"windows-7-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/2009\/01\/21\/windows-7-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been a fan of running the prereleases of microsoft&#8217;s OSs, from an Alpha of NT 5.0 that refused to change VGA drivers up to Longhorn. If nothing else, it&#8217;s a useful way of keeping up to date with all the &#8216;innovations&#8217; that Microsoft jam into their software to keep hardware manufacturers in business.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 is actually looking like it will be the OS that Vista was supposed to be, as in useful without more than 2 Gb of RAM. I&#8217;ve run it up in a VM and it took all of 300Mb on idle. which was nice.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;d like the chance to try it out until the summer, not just the 30 days before Activation makes it fail, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hznet.nl\/2009\/01\/10\/how-to-receive-a-valid-windows-7-key\">http:\/\/blog.hznet.nl\/2009\/01\/10\/how-to-receive-a-valid-windows-7-key<\/a> is probably the place to start. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame that there isn&#8217;t a legal method of obtaining OS X though.. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been a fan of running the prereleases of microsoft&#8217;s OSs, from an Alpha of NT 5.0 that refused to change VGA drivers up to Longhorn. If nothing else, it&#8217;s a useful way of keeping up to date with all the &#8216;innovations&#8217; that Microsoft jam into their software to keep hardware manufacturers in business. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}