Windows 7 RTM Build available for TechNet, MSDN Subscribers
The Windows 7 Team Blog today announced (10 am, Aug 6th, 2009) that the Windows 7 RTM build is available for TechNet and MSDN subscribers.
The official consumer release date is still October 22nd.
The download is just in English. Towards the end of the month other lanugages will be available.
For information on when Windows 7 will be available to specific sets of people, check out this Windows 7 Availability post from the Windows 7 Team Blog.
I bit the bullet after finding a TechNet coupon for 25% off (TMSAM10, else try TMSAM07 – courtesy tjoos.com).
There are also MSDN coupons, although the subscription is too expensive for me. If you’re a startup (with some conditions such as less than $1 million a month revenue) consider joining Microsoft’s BizSparks program. That gets you a free MSDN subscription.
They tend to advertise some convoluted ’sign-up with a network partner’ nonsense – however, you can just ask Microsoft to review your application.
Windows 7 RTM – Downloading Windows 7 Ultimate
Everyone must be downloading at the same time since I’m getting 40 kbps speeds which means an eternal 20 hr wait. Will be installing Windows 7 Ultimate and will let you guys know how it goes. Especially looking forward to the Touch Pack and how it works on my HP TouchSmart.
As a nice bonus this will probably let me try out the Office 2010 RTM early.
Another thing that would be nice is if my 2nd monitor adapter works with the RTM straight off the bat (Couldn’t get it to work on the W7 RC, although it works great on Vista).
A few sites have begun to post their thoughts based on playing around with the Windows 7 RTM leaked builds.
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