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Missing the weekly dose of Windows 7 are we? :p

a little, i gave up on the beta over a month ago and stuck with vista. the wife was sick of me formatting our pc. i promised i wouldn't install again until the final RC came out.

by the way how many RC builds will there be? if there is more than 1, ill wait.

Shame they are shafting their testers to supply the builds to their partners, but kinda inevitable I guess considering they make the vast majority of their profit through OEM's

What's with the fud? OEM are just as much as important as beta testers, why? Because they need to test their systems to get them ready, grow up.

Yey...so we're only one step away from the public RC release , even if we'll get it faster , by means of "Rent" :p

@smooth3006 , well i dont think we'll see a RC2 , but yes , maximum 2 RC's. MS said there will be one beta and one RC for 7.

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a little, i gave up on the beta over a month ago and stuck with vista. the wife was sick of me formatting our pc. i promised i wouldn't install again until the final RC came out.

by the way how many RC builds will there be? if there is more than 1, ill wait.

Why not just dual boot? Keep one partition to satisfy that beta addiction and the other as vista for your wife.

The link to Win 7 beta is not there anymore in my account. So I guess the RC link will be coming soon.

Edit: My MSDNAA account

hmm,does MSDNAA count as normal MSDN?

On topic, best to wait it will happen it doesn't really matter if it's today or two weeks from now.

Shame they are shafting their testers to supply the builds to their partners, but kinda inevitable I guess considering they make the vast majority of their profit through OEM's

1) they're not 'shafting' you. they could test this all internally if they wanted to.

2) 'official' testers efforts are not as important as developers making sure their software is ready on the new os

3) we pay a LOT of money to get benefits like this.

msdn and technet should have releases before any public (and by public, i still mean the closed beta, as any old user can apply. that's luck of the draw for who gets in)

Look at it this way... if developers get their hands on the RC slightly before the general public, there's a better chance that better optimized drivers might be available for W7 soon after it becomes available to the public.

For instance, I wonder if the RC will continue to have problems with various types of wireless cards?

1) they're not 'shafting' you. they could test this all internally if they wanted to.

2) 'official' testers efforts are not as important as developers making sure their software is ready on the new os

3) we pay a LOT of money to get benefits like this.

msdn and technet should have releases before any public (and by public, i still mean the closed beta, as any old user can apply. that's luck of the draw for who gets in)

hmm,does MSDNAA count as normal MSDN?

On topic, best to wait it will happen it doesn't really matter if it's today or two weeks from now.

The MSDNAA accounts donot work to logon to the MSDN network, only to ELMS software centers. At least that's how mine works.

From another forum recently concerning the fake 7200 screenshot.....

Glaringly obvious fake. Just from a quick naked eye look at it...

Version 7.0? Please, it's been known for over 6 months that 7 is 6.1

Build 7200? Nonsense, RC is 7100.

RC1 at the end of the Windows 7 Ultimate logo? Yeah, right, except it's not there in actual builds.

Real builds also have an expiration date, which isn't on that screen.

Font is slightly different from the rest on the version/build lines

Not to mention it was cleverly shrunk to hide traces of the 'shopping.

You are correct on all points. It's a fake screenshot. I was going to post it but what is the point.

No one in TAP will leak folks. That's almost guaranteed. Anyway everyone will get the official release in two short weeks. :)

This is what is on technet currently:

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Yes, nothing... looks like it's partners only, not ordinary subscribers.

btw... there was a Windows 3.2? :blink:

http://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/new...-untitled-2.png

From the dell guy..

+mad_onion please as a senior member hold ya breath for lolling out until its fake :p

100% fake! You can already easily see that "RC1" is a different font than "Ultimate" :rofl:

Also, it's certainly not Version 7.0, and even if there would be RC1 and RC2, RC1 would still be 7100, not 7200. The faker is an idiot :pinch:

Why do people want to say this is fake? Thought it was official news now?

i think its real, but that screenshot is fake.

I'm super excited about this. :D

The news is real and is being reported by people like Mary Jo Foley, which is notorious for checking with sources before running with a story.

btw... there was a Windows 3.2? :blink:
Microsoft released a Simplified Chinese version of Windows for the Chinese market. The updated system identified itself as Windows 3.2. The update was limited to this language version, as it fixed only issues related to the complex writing system of the Chinese language.

Windows 3.2 was generally sold by computer manufacturers with a ten-disk version of MS-DOS that also had Simplified Chinese characters in basic output and some translated utilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.2

I am an IT person. I pay for my own subscription because I am a hard core techie nerd and I like to try all software MSFT has to offer. TechNet allows me to use anything they develop, new or old. I have access to the same thing using my company's MSDN account and TAP affiliation but I want my own licenses and freedom to use the products, without a company master overseeing what I am doing. It's not for the average Joe and it was never meant to be. In a nutshell, if you are a nerd and like playing with Windows, Office, Servers, databases, Programming Langs. and Compilers, and the list goes on and on, then a TechNet account is well worth it.

I am an IT person. I pay for my own subscription because I am a hard core techie nerd and I like to try all software MSFT has to offer. TechNet allows me to use anything they develop, new or old. I have access to the same thing using my company's MSDN account and TAP affiliation but I want my own licenses and freedom to use the products, without a company master overseeing what I am doing. It's not for the average Joe and it was never meant to be. In a nutshell, if you are a nerd and like playing with Windows, Office, Servers, databases, Programming Langs. and Compilers, and the list goes on and on, then a TechNet account is well worth it.

That sounds exactly like me!

But...

I'm broke! :cry:

:rofl:

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