Just a fast update to yesterday;s Windows 7 availability publish: About one p.m. ET on August six, Microsoft posted for download the final Windows 7 bits.
Today,
Windows 7 Pro, they're available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers; tomorrow volume licensees with Software Assurance contracts can download them. Unsurprisingly,
Cheap Office 2010, I;ve observed a couple of reports of slow download times,
Office 2007 Ultimate, but thus far Microsoft;s servers seem to get keeping.
(Guess the famed Chkdsk memory-leak bug didn;t “derail” the Windows seven launch, after all.)
Meanwhile,
Purchase Office 2007, 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,
Office 2010 Professional Plus Key, my colleague Ed Bott has (re-)crafted a handy Windows seven 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.