{"id":408,"date":"2008-12-29T12:57:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/12\/29\/windows-7-beta-review.aspx"},"modified":"2008-12-29T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T12:57:06","slug":"windows-7-beta-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Beta Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does one review a supposedly new version of a product that they have, in reality, already been using for months? It&#8217;s not easy, believe it or not: The Beta version of Windows 7 (build 7000) that Microsoft will later deliver to tech beta testers and then, in January, to the public, is nothing more than a very finely tweaked version of the various post-M3 (Milestone 3, or build 6801&#8211;see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/win7\/win7_preview.asp\">my lengthy overview<\/a> of that build) builds I&#8217;ve been using since October. In fact, there is almost no difference at all between this version of Windows 7 and M3, assuming you&#8217;ve enabled all the hidden M3 features using Rafael Rivera&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Badge&#8221; tool.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/win7\/win7_beta.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/win7\/win7_beta.asp\">http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/win7\/win7_beta.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does one review a supposedly new version of a product that they have, in reality, already been using for months? It&#8217;s not easy, believe it or not: The Beta version of Windows 7 (build 7000) that Microsoft will later deliver to tech beta testers and then, in January, to the public, is nothing more [&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":[338],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}