Post by Gary on Aug 3, 2009 11:51:10 GMT -5
I figured I would drop in the official Microsoft release blog. This is coming from Technet, which is the official Microsoft website for those of us that are in the business to get info.
"Volume License (VL) customers with an existing Software Assurance (SA) license will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English starting August 7, 2009 via the Volume License Service Center (VLSC). The rest of the languages for Windows 7 RTM should be available within a couple of weeks following the English release. For IT professionals who are not part of the VL program, if you have a Technet subscription, you will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English on August 6, 2009, and the remaining languages by October 1, 2009. Evaluation versions of Windows 7 Professional for IT professionals will be made available via the Springboard Series shortly after RTM. "
So if any of you want to try out the RTM before it is available to the general public, let me know and I can send you a link. If you want to try the RC now it is available also.
Comptech LLC. has been testing Windows 7 now in its different forms for the last 6 months and I like it a lot. It is about 5 times faster running apps on the same hardware than Vista. It allows way more hardware than XP. So being that we are all gamers, it seems to be the way to go. The biggest improvement in speed we have found is in the mid range area. Single 280, dual core, 2-4 gigs of RAM. We see much less performance increase in the high end as Vista's footprint and system hog effects are less noticeable. It can be run on with systems that I would never run Vista on as well. We have a system we tested with a single core, on-board everything, and only a gig of ram and it was just as fast as XP with every app we tried.
By the way there is a bug in the upgrade disc so you can use the cheaper upgrade option to load the entire system without having another certified upgradeable OS. I can't really post this as our agreements with Microsoft prevent this but if you do some looking on the net or ask around or do some searching on the web. The pre-release price for the upgrade is only $50 so if you are building your own system it might be the way to go. The pricing Microsoft is quoting is about 15-20 percent higher for 7 than it was for Vista.
One issue we have found is that you must buy a mobo and processor that supports multi-core, multi-channel, if you want to run legacy apps. The OS basically runs an XP shell on a separate thread than the base OS for apps not certified for Vista or 7.
If you have any questions feel free to post here or send us an email.
"Volume License (VL) customers with an existing Software Assurance (SA) license will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English starting August 7, 2009 via the Volume License Service Center (VLSC). The rest of the languages for Windows 7 RTM should be available within a couple of weeks following the English release. For IT professionals who are not part of the VL program, if you have a Technet subscription, you will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English on August 6, 2009, and the remaining languages by October 1, 2009. Evaluation versions of Windows 7 Professional for IT professionals will be made available via the Springboard Series shortly after RTM. "
So if any of you want to try out the RTM before it is available to the general public, let me know and I can send you a link. If you want to try the RC now it is available also.
Comptech LLC. has been testing Windows 7 now in its different forms for the last 6 months and I like it a lot. It is about 5 times faster running apps on the same hardware than Vista. It allows way more hardware than XP. So being that we are all gamers, it seems to be the way to go. The biggest improvement in speed we have found is in the mid range area. Single 280, dual core, 2-4 gigs of RAM. We see much less performance increase in the high end as Vista's footprint and system hog effects are less noticeable. It can be run on with systems that I would never run Vista on as well. We have a system we tested with a single core, on-board everything, and only a gig of ram and it was just as fast as XP with every app we tried.
By the way there is a bug in the upgrade disc so you can use the cheaper upgrade option to load the entire system without having another certified upgradeable OS. I can't really post this as our agreements with Microsoft prevent this but if you do some looking on the net or ask around or do some searching on the web. The pre-release price for the upgrade is only $50 so if you are building your own system it might be the way to go. The pricing Microsoft is quoting is about 15-20 percent higher for 7 than it was for Vista.
One issue we have found is that you must buy a mobo and processor that supports multi-core, multi-channel, if you want to run legacy apps. The OS basically runs an XP shell on a separate thread than the base OS for apps not certified for Vista or 7.
If you have any questions feel free to post here or send us an email.