The Quake Live Beta went online. Just received a Tweet from QuakeLive saying that they went live. It is a wee bit slow, probably because of all the people trying to get to it.

Previously as an invite-only, the public beta of Quake Live will be available today at 11:00PM Eastern Time. There is a countdown timer on the the website indicating when we will be able to “frag” each other. I spent alot of time playing Quake.

Microsoft Corporation extended it’s deadline for downloading the public beta of Windows 7 for another two weeks because of continued interest.

Microsoft launched the Windows 7 beta on January 10, 2009.

Microsoft had capped the downloads of Windows 7 beta at 2.5 million, but because the Microsoft servers couldn’t handle the load of the initial downloads the company extended the time limit and they will be offering the beta through February 10th, 2009.

Microsoft extended the download time limit again till February 10th, 2009 from January 24th. So you might want to get it while you still can. The extension of the download time may be as a result of the downloads not reaching the 2.5 million download mark yet. Microsoft may want to keep the downloads open till they reach that limit.

Activation keys will be available for an indefinite time for users who finished downloading the disk image file before Feb. 12.

The Windows 7 Beta is scheduled out on January 9th, according to the Windows 7 website.

Check out the beta

Windows 7 is going to be available in January according to everything that has been heard. It is leaked ahead of time and is available on the internet via torrents. I wouldn’t recommend breaking the law and downloading it, but it is available if you are feeling brave. The leaked versions are quite stable from what we’ve heard. Please comment let us know how it has been for you if you decide you need to get it early.