Windows 7 Beta Comes To An End! Feb 10th-12 AM PST

So, That it! if you didn't have the download in progress by 12 AM PST Feb 10,2009. You won't be getting a hold of the Windows 7 Beta unless you have an MSDN subscription or Technet, and if you do have the download in progress, you have until Feb 12 9AM to complete the transmission.

So Window 7 Beta is signing off, and what does it mean. Obviously, Windows Release Canidate 1 is coming real soon, moving us ever closer to a product launch, and Windows 7 on a machine in Best Buy near you.

                

You might need to update your WMV codec.

Grrrr! Why won't my WMV convert!!

Ok! So I got a little frustrated this weekend, I was trying to convert a WMV file to an AVI to play on a DIVX player. I soon realized that a new WMV Codec 9 is out there and I needed to update the codec on my machine. So all you XP users that might want to do a WMV decode or encode!

Windows Media Video 9 VCM
This Video Compression Manager (VCM) based version of the Windows Media Video 9 encoder/decoder will enable legacy encoding and editing applications to support the Windows Media Video 9 codec in file containers such as AVI

Go here to get the Download.

• In Select Download dropdown choose Codecs Installation Packages
• In Select Version dropdown choose For Windows Media Video 9 VCM