Microsoft makes Windows 7 RC1 availible for download.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39646595,00.htm

by ensignavenger • 17 years ago

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nimbix• 17 years ago

Tried it in vmware earlier. I couldn't find a simple way to turn off font smoothing, only a 4 step wizard which kept repeatedly showing me text samples and asking which one looked best. Smoothed text makes me nauseous for some reason and I can't stand it.

chaosmachine2• 17 years ago

Microsoft's implementation of font smoothing is really terrible. The way they use subpixels leads to a weird red/green halo on some letters.

Interestingly, font smoothing in OSX doesn't suffer from this problem.

briansmith• 17 years ago

Apple's implementation of font smoothing is really terrible. The way they emulate print rendering on-screen makes every letter blurry and unnecessarily bold.

Interestingly, font smoothing in Windows doesn't suffer from this problem.

nanexcool• 17 years ago

If you do not have a TechNet/MSDN subscription and can't wait for May 5, try http://btjunkie.org/search?q=windows+7100

The first two results are the legit builds (both 32 and 64 bit). I tested with SHA1 against the signatures in TechNet and they are identical.

BTW, I do have my TechNet subscription, but I couldn't wait for today, so I downloaded those versions mentioned two days ago.

Finally, if you already have a beta key from the previous release, it should work with these ones.

Microsoft makes Windows 7 RC1 availible for download.

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