August 6th, 2009
MSDN, TechNet subscribers start downloading final Windows 7 bits
Just a quick update to yesterday’s Windows 7 availability post: Around 1 p.m. ET on August 6, Microsoft posted for download the final Windows 7 bits.
Today, they are available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers; tomorrow volume licensees with Software Assurance contracts can download them. Unsurprisingly, I’ve seen a few reports of slow download times, but so far Microsoft’s servers seem to be holding.
(Guess the famed Chkdsk memory-leak bug didn’t “derail” the Windows 7 launch, after all.)
Meanwhile, if you’re still struggling to understand whether you’ll need to do a reinstall of your Windows apps when moving to Windows 7 or can do an in-place upgrade, my colleague Ed Bott has (re-)crafted a handy Windows 7 upgrade chart that should help.
Next week marks the start of when Windows Server 2008 R2 customers will be able to download the final RTM (release-to-manufacturing) bits of Windows 7’s server-side complement. MSDN and TechNet subscribers can download the RTM server side bits starting Friday, August 14.
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