michelleatsgs Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 Just as the thread title reads: Where is my Windows 7 download? Got here early and checked and checked that licensing portal - but it isnt there!!!! Anyone else waiting for this today?
Gatt Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 Considering that Microsoft are based in the US - it may be another few hours yet as most of them are probably still in bed! lol
michelleatsgs Posted August 6, 2009 Author Posted August 6, 2009 Nooooo!! That can't be right. Microsoft have billed themselves as an international company, so if I lived in China I would be expecting to have my hands on this by now.
robinm Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 Volume licensing shouldn't be out until tomorrow (7th Aug) I thought...?
Gatt Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 Technet and MSDN are today IIRC... - not sure if its just OEM version or if the VL ISO's will be there...
robinm Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 "As always, current Windows Volume License customers, MSDN subscribers and TechNet subscribers will get first customer access, getting Windows 7 on August 6 (MSDN/TechNet) and August 7 (VL), and Windows Server 2008 R2 the second half of August." Source: http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/07/22/microsoft-announces-rtm-for-windows-7-and-server-2008-r2.aspx
Midget Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 That'll be Aug6th 9am Pacific Daylight Time - which is 5pm.
michelleatsgs Posted August 6, 2009 Author Posted August 6, 2009 5 o'clock!! Shocking and outrageous!! Right, off to go and find comfort food now. Tsk, tsk tsk
DrCheese Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 What's nice is we should also get it on MVLS today as well (as long as we have school agreements) Microsoft UK Schools News Blog : Windows 7 availability date announced ? 7th August for many Got some DC upgrades waiting on this
DrCheese Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 (edited) ugh wait a sec, am I right in that we can not get hold of 2008 R2 officially until the 19th or later? (seen here Microsoft UK Schools News Blog : Free Event - Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 ? 21 Aug 2009) That... really sucks >.< That's what I want the most, The sooner it is released offically, the sooner we can upgrade our DC's and 2008 member servers edit: Just read that it's August 14th for technet/MSDN but it's still an annoying delay! http://uneit.com/2009/07/22/windows-server-2008-r2-availability-timetable/ Edited August 6, 2009 by DrCheese
robinm Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 That's what I want the most, The sooner it is released offically, the sooner we can upgrade our DC's and 2008 member servers What do you need in R2 that you don't have in the standard 2008 already? I had a look through the new features and couldn't think how any of them would be applicable to most places!
Gatt Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 R2 will have all the GPOs for Windows 7 - Most can be controlled with 2008 but ther are some newer stuff that cant (libraries, new taskbar, etc..)
robinm Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 People are rolling out Win7 straight away?! I rate it very highly but I'm not sure I'd be that gung-ho edit: love the signature!
Gatt Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 Been using Win7 since the Rc came out and had no problems with it thus far.. in fact its outperformed better than vista ever did...
robinm Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 Been using Win7 since the Rc came out and had no problems with it thus far.. in fact its outperformed better than vista ever did... Same for me at home. Have you been using it across your network as well? Any problems at all?
DrCheese Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 What do you need in R2 that you don't have in the standard 2008 already? I had a look through the new features and couldn't think how any of them would be applicable to most places! It's based on the Windows 7 codebase and not the Vista codebase like 2008 is, so it benefits from all the improvements that 7 has over Vista,eg lighter install, power management, less resources required which is a real benefit considering we have everything running on a VM cluster with limited space on a fast SAN It will have all the 7 GPO's in by default and AD improvements like the AD recycle bin. I just don't see the point in deploying a 2008 based system at this stage. People are rolling out Win7 straight away?! For us for now, it's just going to be on our own IT admin systems, we've all been running it full time since beta and it's lovely. I'd love to roll it out everywhere, but as we're still presently on XP it will require a lot of user retraining and testing first. Also it's not yet officially supported by Capita to for running SIMS, so we're stuck until they and various other pieces of software do.
garethEds Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 She's up! Downloading now :whoo: Oooo - and me for my wife's new Dell Laptop. We will get the upgrade for free soon but cannot resist the download. GJE
Number6 Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 For us for now, it's just going to be on our own IT admin systems, we've all been running it full time since beta and it's lovely. I'd love to roll it out everywhere, but as we're still presently on XP it will require a lot of user retraining and testing first. Also it's not yet officially supported by Capita to for running SIMS, so we're stuck until they and various other pieces of software do. This is the only thing stopping us from a full rollout also! Capita are a gigantic PITA!!
featured_spectre Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 On the machines that use SIMS, dont add it. Use it in classroom environment only in that instance! Staff will have to use it sooner or later!
DMcCoy Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 This is the only thing stopping us from a full rollout also! Capita are a gigantic PITA!! We are moving to Vista this year, 7 just had a release date to far into the holidays and our AV and SIMS are not yet compatible. At least it's only a little step from Vista to 7 for end users next year.
SYNACK Posted August 7, 2009 Posted August 7, 2009 This is the only thing stopping us from a full rollout also! Capita are a gigantic PITA!! Just ignore them and tell support you are on Vista instead. If it is anything like our SMS then the issues are almost never OS related. We only got official Vista support 7 months ago, I'm not waiting until 2012 just to upgrade to the next version because of the bunch of slackers that run MUSAC.
Number6 Posted August 7, 2009 Posted August 7, 2009 On the machines that use SIMS, dont add it. Use it in classroom environment only in that instance! Staff will have to use it sooner or later! If we weren't rolling out SIMS at classroom level in September I wouldn't hesitate.
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