Posts Tagged RTM

When should I get rid of my Windows 7 RC installation?

With the RTM now of Windows 7, there will still be many of you out there who will have the RC (all of us as of now as it still isn’t available ;) .  There will also be others of you (like me) who have installed the RC in various places and won’t have the time to get to installing the gold code right away, so for the time being will stick with the RC.  One important thing to point out:

The RC will completely expire on June 1st, 2010 however it will begin rebooting as from March 1, 2010…

Morale of the story, don’t lull yourself in to a false sense of security.  When you get your hands on the gold code, install it.  Oh yeah, and that’s another thing….There will be workarounds as we’re all sure no doubt, as to how to upgrade from RC to RTM, however DO NOT DO THIS.  Why?  Differences in code, potentially nagging issues that might have cropped up in the RC from testing, etcetera etcetera, etcetera.  Migrate your data, store it somewhere else or whatever, but your best experience when going to RTM will be a fresh install – and don’t forget about RC’s reboots.

Enjoy 7!

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Windows 7 RTM’s

It’s official, Microsoft have announced the RTM of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.  As previously stated, here are the milestones:

- Build 7600 is the official RTM build

- ISV (Independent software vendor) and IHV (Independent hardware vendor) Partners will be able to download Windows 7 RTM from Microsoft Connect or MSDN on August 6th.

- Microsoft Partner Program Gold/Certified Members will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English through the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) Portal on August 16th

- Microsoft Action Pack Subscribers will be about to download Windows 7 RTM in English starting August 23rd

- OEMs will receive Windows 7 RTM software images beginning approximately 2 days after we officially RTM, as a little time is required to release and distribute these images

- you are a Volume License (VL) customer with an existing Software Assurance (SA) license you will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English starting August 7th

- IT Professionals with TechNet Subscriptions will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English on August 6th

- Consumers get it on 22 October

One other cool thing to take note of, because of all of the help, Springboard have got an agreement in place to allow people to download and evaluate Windows 7 as well, so watch this space for more information on that!

Here’s some links referencing the above:

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-22Windows7RTMPR.mspx

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/21/when-will-you-get-windows-7-rtm.aspx

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SBS 2008…it’s coming

So, yesterday while we were sleeping here “across the pond” our friends in Redmond, the SBS team, decided to RTM SBS 2008.  I’ve said it in the past, I’m not a real big fan of SBS, although it does fit in to quite a few “little” markets, but it can’t be upgraded very easily…at any rate, what does this RTM mean?

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