Windows 7 RTM available on MSDNAA on August 14th
Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 Professional RTM is to be released through the MSDNAA (Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance) on August 14th.
This means that Windows 7 is available to Academics a full 2 months before it is available at retail. Hopefully this will make the retail release much smoother, and allow a lot of the early bugs to be ironed out. There should be very few though, as Windows 7 has been very well tested, with almost weekly builds being leaked online, Release Candidate, and early Beta versions. Some are even going to far to look at Windows Vista as the very earliest alpha-test of Windows 7.
I expect the uptake on Windows 7 will be better than that of Windows Vista. People are angling for a change in their desktop interface, and Windows 7 may provide enough of a change to make things fresh for everyone. Does this make Windows Vista the current incarnation of Windows ME though?
Services restored
After the scheduled power-down on August 2nd, services have finally been restored. There was a small issue with the boarder firewall not booting one of the ethernet cards when the power was restored, and thus the site was offline until 1030 today.
The server power-down worked flawlessly, and the server backups were not needed. I will start scheduling regular downtime for server and OS maintenance, which will help keep the OS Kernel up-to-date, as well as allow for hardware upgrades.
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- Completed the server upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS. All services are fully functional.
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