uTorrent 1.7 Released – Vista Support and More

After being acquired by BitTorrent back in December, we all expected uTorrent to be bloated like its brother. And now with the release of uTorrent 1.7, it looks like we guessed it all wrong and uTorrent will still retain its “(very) tiny” status.

uTorrent 1.7 features several improvements along with Vista compatibility and local peer discovery to improve the download speed. Here’s what new in uTorrent 1.7

• Support for Windows Vista
• Ability to update to beta versions of uTorrent
• Automatically limit upload rate
• Ability to find local peers on your network
• 65,536 piece limit on torrent removed.
• And more

No more separate download for standalone and installer version. Both have been included in a single download (218KB). When you run the executable, it’ll ask whether to install or run it in standalone more. I think this is pretty cool because many people confuse between these two versions.

I hope uTorrent continues to progress in this bloat-free state. I expect the next big release to be uTorrent for Mac OSX. TorrentFreak already showed us some screenshots of the pre-alpha version.

You can download uTorrent 1.7 here