I personally do not have a subscription but why not just do Technet ? From what I understand you get 10 copies of just about every single thing Microsoft makes. You can download the ISO's, copy down all of your keys and you are set. You have access to everything for a year and the keys still work after that. From what I understand there is nothing illegal about it, it is something MS offers.

Hey man, that's your perogative. :) But you're saying that from 10 minutes of having the OS installed? Hehe. It just sounded really funny when you said that. :P

And Windows ME... We've all been there and done that.

By the way, 6.1.7600.16384.win7_rtm.090710-1945 is out and it is final according to a few sources. Microsoft has denied it of course, but I guess we won't know till July 24th.

But damn, that's a huge jump from build 7200. :shock:

10 minutes of operation. Too many conversations with fellow technicians under the the same conclusion, it sucked. A year of keeping up with others opinions from forums, saying it sucked. I mean compare the boot time between Vista and Windows 7, it is not even comparable. I do not care if they are aesthetically similar, or they have a comparable kernel. The difference between the two are night and day.

I used Vista for a month or so after it came out, but I felt that the bugs and driver issues forced me to revert to XP until Vista SP1 came out.

SP1 fixed the majority of the issues I was having, and manufacturers had finally come out with halfway decent drives by then, so I re-upgraded to Vista SP1 and have been using it on 2 of my 3 machines since then.

Vista has its pros and cons (with the pros being mostly aesthetic), but I'll be quite glad to upgrade to 7 once it's released. I'm consistently hearing good things about its performance and stability, Vista's main cons.

I'll almost certainly end up having to upgrade my work to Windows 7 in the next couple of years (70 desktops and 15 laptops), but I'm riding XP for as long as I can, for sanity's sake. :D

Yeah. A lot of people are trying to get MSDN subs, but it's not something that you can get that easily. If you're a student, it's much easier though. :) I already have 12 CD Keys for Windows 7 for both 32 and 64bit, so I'm waiting to see if it'll stick once the RTM is out. You can still use the RC1 Windows 7 DVD and use that to upgrade to a RTM Win7, so a lot of people are going that route. If they still work, I'll toss one your way. :) There was a limited time when the RC1 beta was closed, and they were giving out free CD Keys, so I snatched up a handful just in case. *OM NOM NOM NOM*

And about the 10 minute thing, you know I'm just ribbing ya. It just sounded funny, that's all. It's like me telling my friends, that after I was married my wife for ten minutes I decided she wasn't for me, both asthetically and performance wise, so I installed HotBabe 7. :D

Shendare, I did the same too. Vista out of the box (before SP1) was horrible - I mean in comparison to what it is now at least. And they issued SP1 too late, so the damage has already been done. Luckily I was still using WinXP as a dual boot, so I didn't get shafted much. After SP1, it was nice so I just made it my main OS. :smile:

I just can't go back to WinXP, though. They only way to go is forward, and that's with Windows 7. Damn, I sound like a commercial now.