RTM and Availability

If windows 7 goes RTM in june and supposed to be released in general public in October, when would Technet and MSDN subscribers be able to download it?


Hothondaguy

June?

Aren't most if not all of the leaks coming from subscribers?

even if the RTM isn't until July, i was wondering when MSDN gets the RTM version. The leaks are not actually coming from MSDN, msdn only has RC1. the leaks are supposedly coming straight from Microsoft.

Hothondaguy said:

If windows 7 goes RTM in june and supposed to be released in general public in October, when would Technet and MSDN subscribers be able to download it?
Hothondaguy

At the end of July.

A recent (two weeks ago) MS blog post indicated they expected RTM to "partners" by the second half of July:

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/win...dows-7-is.aspx

It's not clear if this includes MSDN/Technet though, or if it would simply be other "partners" like their TAP program.

Of course Snow Leopard was announced a week after that post as well, and it's sounded like MS has accelerated things a bit as a result....

poin2 said:

A recent (two weeks ago) MS blog post indicated they expected RTM to "partners" by the second half of July:

The Date for General Availability (GA) of Windows 7 is… - Windows 7 Team Blog - The Windows Blog

It's not clear if this includes MSDN/Technet though, or if it would simply be other "partners" like their TAP program.

Of course Snow Leopard was announced a week after that post as well, and it's sounded like MS has accelerated things a bit as a result....

There so lucky i havn't got a sub but will be getting one next year.