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MSDN, TechNet users to get Windows 7 tomorrow

By | August 5, 2009, 6:54am PDT

A quick reminder: Bar any server overload issues, the final Windows 7 bits will be available on August 6 to a slew of Microsoft customers.

As Microsoft announced last month, the company is making the final version of Windows 7, which was released to manufacturing at the end of July, available to the following groups of customers on Thursday:

  • TechNet subscribers (English only, downloadable via Microsoft Connect or TechNet Downloads)
  • MSDN subscribers (English only, downloadable via Microsoft Connect or MSDN)
  • Independent software vendors/Independent hardware vendors (English only via Microsoft Connect or MSDN)

Software Assurance subscribers will be allowed to download the official RTM English version of the Windows 7 bits on Friday, August 7, from the Volume License Software Center site.

Gold Certified resellers, Action Pack subscribers and  consumers still have anywhere from another week (in the case of resellers), to a couple of months (for consumers) to wait for the final bits.

Another key Windows 7 date is August 20. That is the last day testers will be allowed to download the Release Candidate (RC) test buid of Windows 7.

For those ready to get started with the final Windows 7 bits, Microsoft has been posting a bunch of deployment-related guides and links, as of late. Among them are the Windows 7 Deployment Frequently Asked Questions page and the Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Guide. ZDNet bloggers have published a bunch of Windows 7 news, tips and tricks, too, which are available on our Windows 7 Special Report page.

Update: As of 1 p.m. ET on August 6: Windows 7 final bits are live and ready for download by those who qualify.

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RE: MSDN, TechNet users to get Windows 7 tomorrow
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Posting to MSDN: Time of day?
alsw 5th Aug 2009
Knowing that the download servers will melt down into slag, does MSDN post at a particular time of day?
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time of day for download
Mary Jo Foley Updated - 5th Aug 2009
I have asked MS and will update this post if and when they let me know. Good question. Thanks. MJ

Update: Just got word back: MS is declining to provide a time. They said they will post a blog post once the bits are available. Sorry. I tried ....
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Any idea on MSDNAA?
pwatt01 Updated - 5th Aug 2009
if/when will it be available on MSDNAA, and what version??? any idea?
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MSDN AA availability
Mary Jo Foley 5th Aug 2009
also looks like tomorrow, August 6. MJ

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/08/05/windows-7-rtm-available-on-dreamspark-on-6th-august-nzt
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Houston: We have a problem
5th Aug 2009
fyi,

http://infoworld.com/d/windows/critical-windows-7-bug-risks-derailing-product-launch-330

(Don't shoot the messenger.)
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Reminds me of something an old Ford engineer said once...
pmcgrath@... 5th Aug 2009
I use to work for a weather sealing manufacturer. One day I was having lunch with an old Ford engineer. He was complaining about how they managed to break things they had already perfected. In this case he telling me they had a recall out because the lug nuts were falling of the new trucks. "Lug nuts! Crap we've only been using lug nuts to hold on wheels for what 50, 60 years. Youd think wed get it right by now!"

So the chkdsk utility...

Makes me think back and laugh.
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Mary Jo Foley 5th Aug 2009
Hi. Not going to shoot the messenger. But the launch of Win 7 is not being "derailed." It's full steam-ahead.

Yes, some sites are reporting they've found a bug in the NTFS file system. MS is saying they can't reproduce it, for what it's worth.

On Chris123's blog, MS President Sinofsky weighed in. This is MS' response on that bug:

http://www.chris123nt.com/2009/08/03/critical-bug-in-windows-7-rtm#comment-11469

No word on what MS will do if they end up being able to reproduce it. I'd think they'd fix it in the still-yet-publicly-unacknowledged SP1 for Win 7...Thanks. MJ
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Wow. talk about lame.
i8thecat Updated - 5th Aug 2009
http://www.chris123nt.com/2009/08/03/critical-
bug-in-windows-7-rtm#comment-11469

They can't even figure out how to reproduce the
bug? With that kind of talent, it will take
them years to fix it.

Update the chipset? Bump the ram to 8 GB and
yet one person reported it happening with 8GBs
of ram. It was designed to use more memory?

I don't think MS's initial choice to ignore it
and go on with the release anyway would be a
good idea. Not after all the Vista problems.
This is the type of PR that will fast track
Vista 7, I mean Windows 7 down the same toilet
as the original Vista BM.
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Reproduce
midcapwarrior@... 5th Aug 2009
Did you even read the comments? You seem to be confusing the comments by forum members with actual MS comments. There is only 1 from MS the others are heresay at best. In the words of Mr. Sinofsky "Deep breath".
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More Windows 7 FUD
csharp4 5th Aug 2009
I suggest you actually read the article that you post.

The issue with Windows 7 was related to a chipset driver.

"UPDATE:

After emailing back and forth with the VP Sinofsky, it was found that the chkdsk /r tool is not at fault here. It was simply a chipset controller issue. Please update you chipset drivers to the current driver from your motherboard manufacturer. I did mine, and this fixed the issue. Yes it still uses alot of physical memory, because your checking for physical damage, and errors on the Harddrive your testing. I?m currently completed the chkdsk scan with no BSOD?s or computer sluggishness. Feel free to do this and try it for yourselves. Again, there is no Bug."
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RE: MSDN, TechNet users to get Windows 7 tomorrow
itsparijat 5th Aug 2009
I've been waiting for this from some time now, Windows 7 is very promising and it will be a proper successor to Win XP. Thanks Mary Jo
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RE: MSDN, TechNet users to get Windows 7 tomorrow
maphuta 6th Aug 2009
Hey folks, it's Thursday (8/6) 7:45am central time (Chicago) and nothing yet on the MSDN download site. What time is the good time? Pacific time at 8am?
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MSNDA
nsuguy 6th Aug 2009
What about the MSNDA Community ? Are we getting it as well ?
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RE: MSDN, TechNet users to get Windows 7 tomorrow
Jon@... 6th Aug 2009
it is Aug 6, 2009 at 10:49 and still no release of the ISO on the MSDN website
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On technet
rtk 6th Aug 2009
for at least the last hour or so.
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Technet Now Available
Elric 6th Aug 2009
Released on Technet as of Noon Central.
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RE: MSDN, TechNet users to get Windows 7 tomorrow
airsoftsnake 6th Aug 2009
It's up on technet now!

downloading 32/64 bit versions of ultimate!
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