Windows 7, Microsoft’s excuse for vista next operating system is now in beta and opened to the public.

I do not recommend using anything beta as your main OS, but if you have a spare PC laying around then this might be fun to play with.

System Requirements:
* Processor: 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
* Memory: 1 GB of system memory
* Hard drive: 16 GB of available disk space
* Video card: Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128MB memory (in order to enable Aero theme)
* Drive: DVD-R/W drive
* Internet connection (to download the Beta and get updates)

The Beta expires August 1, 2009 and is available to the first 2.5 million downloaders.

Download it here.

UPDATE:

Until January 24, the 2.5 million user download limit has been lifted. So its a download free-for-all now.