Windows 7 RTM now available on Technet

[bekdik]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

Is this not included? Pro and Ultimate specs indicate that it's included in the product.

 

[chickenbeef]

no, cant use beta key ... but there is something called Orbit30 R5 + Hazar (google it) .. say no more!

Thank you

 

[Mokusei]

Can anybody help me out with a copy?

 

[Stickfigure]

Guys// RTM vs the October release... Any difference?

No.

 

[SirFooK'nG]

Have you tried Crysis at that resolution with AAx8 and every graphic setting on the highest level plus being in the DX10 kitchen, if it runs smoothly after that... Just supply the coordinates of the rig for extraction.

No probs on AAx8, drop to a low of 20FPS.

 

[Park@82]

No.

Then why do they only bring it out in October?

 

[I am Penguin]

Download Windows 7 RTM Wave 2 Straight from Microsoft

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Windows-7-RTM-Wave-2-Straight-from-Microsoft-119225.shtml

According to Microsoft, Wave 2, scheduled for August 14th, will bring to the table: “Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, Itanium (x64 and ia64) – English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese. All Windows 7 Client (x86 and x64) Retail and VL Editions – French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese. Checked builds – English

 

[Arthur]

Then why do they only bring it out in October?

Reasonable question, Park. One would think that in this Age of the Internet you can finish the code one day and have it available for download by lunchtime. Some smaller ISVs can do that, but for Microsoft it's just not possible. If you had any idea what has to happen from when code goes golden and finally appears on a store shelf you'd be boggled beyond belief. Lights burn 24 hours in thousands of offices at Microsoft, and dozens of partners, suppliers and vendors. Six weeks is unbelievably fast. Whatever can, happens in parallel, but some things are a serial process. The checklist is longer than putting together a Boeing 747 (quite true - I heard that from Boeing CEO's daughter Patti Stonesifer, who was for years a senior exec at Microsoft, now at billg's Foundation). Here's an overview of some of the main things in no particular order:

It takes at least 6 weeks for manufacturing and channel fill in the major language versions - hardware OEMs need time to get their ducks in a row with preload, and they get priority because they're Microsoft's most important Windows partners (they buy millions of licences a year). A VAST amount of documentation has to be finalised, checked and rechecked -- detailed technical manuals with tens of thousands of pages, user guides, installation guides, government submissions, tech ref manuals, internal, partner and customer educational materials, Knowledgebase articles, etc, etc, have to be finalised, checked, translated, printed, distributed. In the meantime the packaging and a dozen other technical support and licensing materials have to be finalised, checked, translated, printed, manufactured in two dozen languages. Then DVDs have to be manufactured (with difficult-to-replicate anti-counterfeiting measures such as complex encoded hologram and others), channel fill orders have to be processed, shipped and invoiced and delivered to distribution and retail partners; and then sales and marketing has to rev up. Meantime educational materials (manuals, videos, sample code, PPTs, online course materials, etc) have to be updated, finalised, checked, translated, and then tens of thousands of channel partners have to be informed, trained, and educated. Thousands of internal and partner support staff, suppliers and vendors in three dozen countries have to be educated and trained to be ready when users start phoning. Apart from the all the normal manufacturing, technical training, sales and marketing readiness stuff that has to kick in, gear up and roll out, there are two dozen governments around the world who want detailed info and disclosures, and this has to be very carefully handled in great detail. When glitches happen (in say a tech ref manual for ISVs) the whole web is full of "see how Microsoft misleads/screws up/etc" flames). Just the raw manufacturing is a vast undertaking ... I don't know what the initial channel fill for Win7 is, but assuming one can manufacture 2 packages a second 24 hours a day 7 days a week it'll probably take at least a month to get the first run out the door.

Six weeks from RTM to GA is super-FAST!

 

[Gamer]

Thanks for this thread. Reminded me to download it. Started at 19h55 and according to my download manager it'll be finished at about 21h20.
I'm grabbing RTM x86 version.

 

[Park@82]

...
Six weeks from RTM to GA is super-FAST!

Thanks for clearing that up Arthur. But it also gives the RTM six weeks to be leaked and cracked before it hits stores, which cant be a good thing for MS...