Do not do upgrades!

swarfega · 24 Apr 2009

I believe so, Ive seen these dates mentioned:

RC (7100) May 2009
RC2 (7200) Aug 2009
RTM (7300) Sep/Oct 2009
Public release Jan 2010

Barman58 · 24 Apr 2009

Ok you all persuaded me

Just finished my fresh install

all seems ok so far .

Decided that as I intend running this build for a while I might as well stat fresh

swarfega · 24 Apr 2009

If this leak is going to be exactly the same as the May 5th official release, then Ill likely stick with this one for a while yet.

rkellogg9 · 24 Apr 2009

So if I use the file and setting backup feature, I still have to reinstall all of my software, correct? Any advice on what is the fastest method to not have to deal with finding all of my programs and drivers for a clean install?

YupYup · 24 Apr 2009

swarfega said:

I believe so, Ive seen these dates mentioned:

RC (7100) May 2009
RC2 (7200) Aug 2009
RTM (7300) Sep/Oct 2009
Public release Jan 2010

Where does this info come from, Microsoft earlier had stated there would only be 1 beta and 1 RC.

swarfega · 24 Apr 2009

I cant remember where, I think it was one of my rss feeds.

YupYup · 24 Apr 2009

swarfega said:

I cant remember where, I think it was one of my rss feeds.

If you could hunt that down it would be great, as the news sites such as cnet are still reporting this is "expected to be the last public milestone before Microsoft finalizes the code".

Bare Foot Kid · 24 Apr 2009

abuttino said:

There are countless reasons not to do an upgrade from a beta OS to a beta OS but people seem to think it's still ok.

I can't stress how bad upgrading these beta versions is. Stop doing it, or risk losing or corrupting our data.

Don't believe me, just ask "cw-kid" over at "thegreenbutton" having all his mp3's corrupted.

It probably didn't end there.

Just get a backup program like Acronis and do an image of your HD then restore from that.

Just for the record, I did a full restore in less than 2 hours. Most of that was just moving things back onto the HD from the image.

IMO, anyone that is using a beta OS as their main OS is a goofball to start with, they're going to time out, what are they going to use then?

Just my two cents!

Later

Ted

swarfega · 24 Apr 2009

Windows 7 RC finally completed,Build 7100 | Tech Mania

swarfega · 24 Apr 2009

Bare Foot Kid said:

IMO, anyone that is using a beta OS as their main OS is a goofball to start with, they're going to time out, what are they going to use then?

Just my two cents!

Later

Ted

That has been discussed several times on these forums and there will be further releases (including rc and possibly rc2) before then. As mentioned X-86 Expiration date ? 03 Mar 2010 the expiry date isnt until next year for later builds by which time windows will be fully released.

I dont think anyone should worry about the possibility of having to go back to Vista.