{"id":787,"date":"2009-02-03T01:39:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2009-02-03T08:34:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T06:34:23","slug":"downloading-windows-7-beta-32-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/787","title":{"rendered":"Downloading Windows 7 Beta 32-bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/betaexperience\/productkeys\/win7-32\/enus\/default.aspx\">a beta of Windows 7<\/a>, so many people shared their positive impressions of. I am not quite sure I will have time to actually evaluate it, but for the case I would feel like, it is always nice to have the .ISO image ready for a try.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing worth a word until I reached the download screen which opened an extremely awful Java applet that pretended to be a download manager. It seemed to be a new spin of technology and sort of I don&#8217;t need a nice download manager anymore because direct HTTP links are out of fashion. It started pumping bytes (actually thanks for that) and I my attempt to copy\/paste a direct link into my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downthemall.net\/\">DownThemAll<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla.org\">FireFox<\/a> plugin was vain.<\/p>\n<p>At some 20% the download froze without a notice. The download did not even ungray the resume buttons before I restarted FireFox process and then any attempt to resume led to weird message boxes. Frankly at this point I almost lost the desire to actually complete the download. But left a last chance to have it completed by IE. Internet Explorer (expectedly!) preferred ActiveX control to Java applet. It&#8217;s GUI was a bit less scary and it took over incomplete download and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02-image001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-788\" title=\"Window 7 Beta Download Manager Crash\" src=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02-image001-300x185.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02-image001-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02-image001.png 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An attached debugger showed a call stack (oops, I did not save exact call stack) in Manager.exe process in C runtime module, in a CString class method&#8230; It went no further than this crashing at exactly the same point until I manually deleted the incomplete download, when it again repeated a weird message box and then finally restart the download from the start. That was enough for me and found a .torrent with the exactly the same file on <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\">thepiratebay.org<\/a>, which I am quite sure will download without a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it incredibly stupid that significant amount of work was invested into unnecessary task, ugly user interface, buggy implementation (freeze, incapable download manager, weird messages, crash) with a solid residual of inability to conveniently download the thing, while the file could be just put onto regular MS download service?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to download a beta of Windows 7, so many people shared their positive impressions of. I am not quite sure I will have time to actually evaluate it, but for the case I would feel like, it is always nice to have the .ISO image ready for a try. 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