Win 7 RC1 build 7100 now available from Microsoft

[DarkHand]

No more skeevy bittorrent ISOs to get the newest version!

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx

Work connection FTW, 1MB/sec:

 

[Drake]

I plan on DLing it when I get home. I downloaded Beta 1 and didnt do jack with it haha. RC1 may be in the same boat.

 

[Briansol]

i thought this was only available to certain builders/keys. hrm

 

[Briansol]

i'm only getting 137kb/s

 

[DarkHand]

i thought this was only available to certain builders/keys. hrm

It was for a while, now it's open to the public. And it's good and legal until I think March 2010, so there's plenty of time for an expiration crack to come out... I mean plenty of time to buy the full version.

 

[caboose]

I'm pulling up to 1.2 MB/s off my cable here at home...

 

[kriz]

I would get it if I wasn't too busy/lazy to rebuild my computer. Right now Vista Ultimate x64 is doing just fine.

 

[endlesszeal]

haha it temporarily brought msn's servers to its knees a couple of days ago.

from most of what ive gathered, its the OS to go with and what Vista shouldve been. definately looking forward to this.

 

[Drake]

After SP1 Vista wasnt all that horrible really from what I hear. Now the hype of it sucking really effected sales no doubt about it. But whenever I hear someone bitching about Vista I ask them what their biggest complaint is and really have no complaint.

 

[endlesszeal]

yeah its not that bad but still not for me. i disabled UAC but the few problems that have cropped up are not able to install some updates, corrupted data and stupid ass indexing (which u can turn off too). out of 4 vista machines ive used, 2 have crashed and need reinstalls. most of it was due to corrupted data. hopefully sp2 will fix all these issues.

vista was good but not great. windows 7 is vista 2.0 so hopefully itll be good like XP is kinda 2000 2.0.

 

[TurboMirage]

i've installed vista enterprise SP1 on all my machines now, x86 and x64, and have little to no issues at all just leaving things as-is with UAC on and the firewall on.

then again, i dont tinker hardcore or visit malicious websites.

 

[kriz]

After SP1 Vista wasnt all that horrible really from what I hear. Now the hype of it sucking really effected sales no doubt about it. But whenever I hear someone bitching about Vista I ask them what their biggest complaint is and really have no complaint.

If I had a dime for every time a customer came in to bestbuy asking about Vista because "It sucks balls right?" when they've never even tried it...

 

[kriz]

So today I turned my pc on to find that the Creative drivers for my X-Fi sound card f***ed up on me again and my left speaker stopped working for like the 50th time. I got pissed and downloaded and installed RC1 and I've gotta say so far so good its really nice but no signs of being smoother than Vista x64 imo.

 

[Briansol]

i'm not impressed with vista at all... its slow as fuck for me.

now that i have a monitor again, i'm going to try rc1 on my laptop

 

[cjvictoria]

im gettin 180 kb/s... sad...

 

[TurboMirage]

got it installed on my netbook. feels like a mac. i'm semi-pleased. i will give it a little more time, hopefully can customize the interface a bit.