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in order to use the Windows 7 beta you’ll have to be upgrading from Vista SP1.
check out windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/information-on-downloading-and-installing-windows-7-beta
you can do a clean install, too; they just mean that if you want to perform an upgrade install, you must be starting from a Vista SP1 machine.