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MSDN and TechNet users: Get ready for your Win 7 Beta 1 bits

By | January 7, 2009, 2:59pm PST

Summary: Tonight’s the night. Expect Microsoft to make the official, sanctioned Windows 7 Beta 1 bits available to Connect testers, Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet subscribers for download some time after the CEO Steve Ballmer keynote begins (6:30 p.m. PT).

Straight from the (French) Microsoft blogger’s mouth: “C’est cette nuit.”

Tonight’s the night.

Expect Microsoft to make the official, sanctioned Windows 7 Beta 1 bits available to Connect testers, Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet subscribers for download some time after the CEO Steve Ballmer Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote begins (6:30 p.m. PT).

MSDN and TechNet users: Get ready for your Win 7 Beta 1 bits

If you really can’t wait for tonight’s “private” Beta 1 build — or the imminent public one –  the 64-bit version is on torrents now. I’m not suggesting anyone do anything illegal — like download it from there. But I’ve heard it’s been done at least a few times with the 32-bit Win 7 version that was leaked just after Christmas.

Join us for our live-blogging coverage of Ballmer starting around 6:15 tonight. (If you’ve sent a request to be admitted to Friendfeed room we’ve set up, we’ll let you in starting just after 6.)

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