Do you have the 'cool' tag to own Microsoft?

This is it folks, the moment we've been waiting for. PC users have suffered the taunting and teasing of Apple's "Get a Mac" ads for years now and it seems Microsoft has finally decided to fight fire with fire, valiantly.

Microsoft's latest addition to their "Life Without Walls" campaign is a new series of videos entitled "Laptop Hunters". In the premier video, we find Lauren who is in search for a brand new 17" laptop for under $1000. Lo and behold; Lauren's first stop - The Apple Store. Can you see where this is going? I think you can.

Oh, but after everything Apple has pulled over the years, do you think Microsoft would stop there? Nuh-uh. Head on over to The Wall Street Journal to be greeted with yet another surprise. Yes, it's a Mac vs. PC slot machine banner! (pictured above) Give it a spin to compare your affordable PC choice with a hilariously weak Mac offering.

Well done Microsoft, we knew you could do it. Superb twist to what you call a classic payback.

Laptop Hunters - Lauren
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Windows 7 Beta leaked!

Windows 7 Beta (build 7000) has been leaked on to the internet. This was done yesterday and is being downloaded in huge quantities through torrent networks. The download available is a 32-bit ISO image and proposedly a Beta download. It has been leaked on major torrent networks now although initially, the download was available from a Chinese File Hosting server Namipan. The download was originally leaked on a Chinese forum PCBeta. To download the Beta, please go through the links available below-

Demonoid Link: Windows_7_Beta_1_7000_0_081212_1400_iso_o-Demonoid.com-o.torrent
Mininova Link: 7000 [mininova].torrent

There are approximately a 1000 seeders and 5000 peers for the Mininova torrent. Since registrations at Demonoid are closed right now, you should download it from Mininova right now. If you want to download through the Namipan file server, you need to download first NamiRobot from the links below-

http://202.111.173.105:8011/NamiRobotSetup.exe
http://218.93.248.125:8011/NamiRobotSetup.exe

Then go to the link

http://www.namipan.com/d/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso/3cde3c2bb03773c82ce8eb766c459fd9a91f6e4d00a0179c

and there click the blue text besides the ">" sign to download through NamiRobot.

File Properties

File: 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso
Size: 2618793984 bytes
MD5: f9dce6ebd0a63930b44d8ae802b63825
SHA1: 6071184282B2156FF61CDC5260545C078CCA31EE
CRC32: AABA5A48

Please verify all the above properties before downloading so that you make sure that you are downloading the original copy. The Beta will expire on July 1, 2009.

So enjoy your download and have fun experimenting with the new Windows 7!

Windows 7 Beta : Coming on January 13th?

 

After months and months of speculation, it seems that the wait is almost over. Microsoft may officially release the Windows 7 Beta at the next month's Microsoft Developer Network Conference (MDC) slated for January 13th, 2009. Also, attendees at next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) could get the first public look at Windows 7 which is scheduled for 8-11 January. Although there has been no official confirmation on this specific report, Microsoft wrote on a Web site for its MDCs that attendees of those conferences, some of which are scheduled for mid-January, can expect a Windows 7 beta DVD. Some reports have suggested that Windows 7 Beta has already been made available to specific testers through invitation from ZDNet. If that is true, we can expect it anytime soon. Microsoft has expressed a desire to launch Windows 7 by the early 2010 but some reports suggest that Microsoft may even release it by mid-2009 and that too after Vista has performed very poorly on the front line market with a lot of disappointment.

Whatever it is, we stand to benefit from it and this is surely an interesting thing and we might be in for something huge. Right now, one can have a sneak peek at the Windows 7 by downloading a pre-beta from different torrent sites ILLEGALLY but surely there's no stopping the party. Let us hope for the earliest possible dates!

For more details and the absolute latest updates on when Windows 7 Beta is coming to your PCs, keep a close tabs on the Official Windows 7 site. To go there, click here.