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……before the Windows 7 download will become available through your TechNet Plus and MSDN Subscription.

I’m kinda curious if the servers will be overloaded again, just like the release of the first beta back in January. When the links become available I’ll update the /windows7/downloads section so everything is up to date again.

It can be a coincidence, but tomorrow evening I’ll be at Microsoft NL HQ for a meeting about Windows 7 and so I’m really hoping that the servers won’t die before I’ll be back at home and have been able to generate a key and download the bits from TechNet.

Na een aantal jaren van afwezigheid is het in oktober 2009 eindelijk weer tijd voor een echte ouderwets TechNet Live event! Op het moment van schrijven is er nog erg weinig bekend, behalve dat het event plaats vind op 8 oktober 2009 ergens in Den Haag.

Zodra er meer informatie bekend is zal ik dat zeker melden, maar dan zal het ook wel via de TechNet nieuwsbrief van Tony en Daniel bekend gemaakt worden verwacht ik.

Just a few hours ago I blogged about the new Windows 7 download page over at the TechNet Evaluation Center, it has been replaced (again) by the ‘old’ one (=beta page) again. Probably somebody pressed the publish button a bit to early! Let’s hope nobody gets fired because of this!

Check out both the screenshots, first the Windows RC page (from this afternoon) and next

   TechNet Evaluation Center Windows 7 Page (March 26th at 16:00 CET)

TechNet Evaluation Center Windows 7 Page (March 26th at 20:00 CET)

On the TechNet Evaluation Center the Windows 7 Release Candidate page is live! Strangely enough the publishing date says : May 2009 (hmm..it’s still March over here…).

The downloads aren’t working either, but the links are there already…

If you have a TechNET Plus subscribtion you can consider yourself very lucky!

From Wednesday Jan 7th 2008 at 6:30 PST (What time in my region?) the official Windows 7 Beta and the Windows 2008 R2 (Beta?) will be available for download at TechNet Plus.

Don’t worry…I you don’t have a TechNET subscription you just have to wait for another day. The official public beta’s will become available at Friday January 9th (I’m not sure about the exact time).

DOWNLOADS

TechNET Subscribers only! Download Windows 7 Beta 64-bit (English) (Also download this MP3 Fix!) Download Windows 7 Beta 32-bit (English) (Also download this MP3 Fix!) Release notes Windows 7

Download Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard 64-bit (English) Download Windows Web Server 2008 R2 Beta 64-bit (English) Release notes Windows Server 2008 R2

MSDN Subscribers only! Download Windows 7 Beta 64-bit (English) (Also download this MP3 Fix!) Download Windows 7 Beta 32-bit (English) (Also download this MP3 Fix!) Release notes Windows 7

Download Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard 64-bit (English) Download Windows Web Server 2008 R2 Beta 64-bit (English) Release notes Windows Server 2008 R2