Windows 7 RTM and MSDN Academic Alliance MSDN AA Availability Update
At the start of this week, I posted an article informing users of the fact that Windows 7 RTM was available for download via MSDN Academic Alliance (MSDN AA). Looking at the comments that have been piling up I think that an update is necessary to clarify some aspects.
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14.8.2009 XP SP3 Integrated Images on MSDN
Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3, to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers.
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3.5.2008 Windows XP Mode RTM via MSDN and TechNet
Having released Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC to manufacturing at the start of this month, Microsoft is currently offering the two Windows 7 features for download.
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8.10.2009 Do you need more keys?
Windows 7 Activation Keys
It really looks as if the only topic left to discuss on this blog is Windows 7 LOL! Again, I’m here with another Windows 7-related post, which I think will be loved by all who have been trying to get their hands on a Windows 7 activation key.
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1.11.2009 2 Year Old Pirated Keys Defeats WGA
On July 18, Microsoft's WGA team promised to send me a disk with a product key from their blocked list. It was supposed to arrive via overnight service, but it was never sent.
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9.8.2006 Microsoft runs out of Vista product keys
A small hitch has cropped up in Microsoft’s beta-testing program for Vista: the software giant has temporarily run out of product keys for testers.
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7.9.2006 Windows Vista Product Keys Leaked
What is the first thing you should do after buying Windows Vista? Take high resolution pictures of the newly acquired product and post it on the Internet so that anyone could see. Right? Wrong!
Or at least if you are going to take pictures of the Windows Vista box and what it contains make sure that you choose a neutral side.
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9.2.2007 Perform a Windows Vista Suicide by Pressing Just 2 Keys
Windows Vista can be completely killed by pressing a simple combination of just two keys. All you need to crush Microsoft's latest operating system and put the much-applauded Wow at an end is two fingers. Thanks to odeeee for this news.
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14.7.2007 MS: Valid Vista Family Discount Keys Coming
Microsoft said Friday afternoon that it was in the process of issuing new keys to those who may have received invalid ones through the Vista Family Discount program.
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4.2.2007 Tons of Genuine Windows Product Keys Published and Available Online
There is an entire library of Windows product keys available online, only a Google search away. And we all can agree that that's by no means very far.
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18.4.2007 Windows 7 RC Build 7100 Activation Product Keys
Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100 is now available for public download straight from Microsoft. In parallel, users can also access Windows Server 2008 R2 RC, which went live concomitantly with the client flavor of Windows 7.
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5.5.2009 Microsoft Is Still Delivering Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 Product Keys
Four months after the availability of Vista RC1 Microsoft is still delivering product keys for Windows Vista Release Candidate 1.
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1.1.2007 Windows 7 beta on MSDN?
Just as many are waiting for the Windows 7 beta to be announced at CES, we have a Microsoft blog saying its available on MSDN!
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8.1.2009 MSDN Opens Up to Firefox, Opera
MSDN announced last week that it had tweaked its subscriber download site in order to make it compatible with both Firefox and Opera. There are some issues, such as extra work needed in installing the File Transfer Manager, however developers are working on a new version of the FTM that should correct final problems.
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Microsoft Releases MSDN Wiki
Microsoft has released its Microsoft Developer Network Wiki for developers.
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9.12.2006 Windows Home Server - Now available on MSDN
A key benefit of Windows Home Server is the versatility and power it offers as a development platform. Even when Windows Home Server software was still in the beta stage, we published a software development kit (SDK) so that 3rd party developers could develop interesting add-ins for the product. See the original post, "Developers, Developers, Developers".
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25.3.2009 Windows Vista RTM appears on MSDN
Microsoft Date/Time Posted: 2006-11-16 21:56:18 (UTC).
File: en_windows_vista_x86_dvd_X12-34293.iso ISO-9660 DVD Image
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16.11.2006 Online Windows 7 event: MSDN Unleashed
On February 28, Microsoft organizes an indepth Windows 7 event in Irvine California.
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22.2.2009 Windows 7 To Surface on TechNet/MSDN This Month
We’ve received word from a trusted source close to GeekSmack that Windows 7 will be on TechNet/MSDN before the end of the month, so those of us with a premium TechNet/MSDN account will be able to get the official RTM build about 2 months ahead of when Windows 7 will hit store shelves on October 22nd.
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3.7.2009 Download Windows 7 RTM from MSDN & TechNet
Microsoft today has announced the availability of the final version of Windows 7 (RTM Build 7600.16385) for Microsoft Connect, MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers.
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6.8.2009 Windows Vista Iso BillGates to MSDN patch 2
Second Little path for BillGates ISO of Windows Vista RTM to transform this release into legit MSDN release.
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18.11.2006 Collection of published Vista SP1 API changes from MSDN
Microsoft might choose not to tell its enthusiasts anything about Windows Vista Service Pack 1, but they can’t afford to keep it a secret to the development community. Thanks to pacpis for this article.
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22.7.2007 A short chat with a MSDN Concierge about Vista SP1
Not long ago, Microsoft has hinted towards the availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on MSDN if not before the public beta. I wanted to find out if this was the case and who better to ask than the MSDN Concierge - open 24 hours, talk about great service. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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18.8.2007 Windows 7 RC now available for download on MSDN, TechNet & Connect
Microsoft made the first release candidate of Windows 7 available for free download on Thursday. In an unprecedented move for the company, the software will run on a user's PC for more than a year.
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30.4.2009 Windows 7 RTM Available for Download via the MSDN Academic Alliance
Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 is currently available for download via the MSDN Academic Alliance. The past week, starting with August 6th, 2009, Microsoft began offering the gold bits of Windows 7 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
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10.8.2009 Download Windows 7 RTM Wave 3 via MSDN and TechNet
Get ready to access the third wave of Windows 7 RTM downloads from Microsoft. Today, August 21, 2009, the Redmond company will make available for download Windows 7 RTM wave 3 for its developer and IT professional audiences, through their respective portals.
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21.8.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 beta available on MSDN and TechNet
Today Microsoft has made the official Office 2010 beta bits available on TechNet/MSDN, so those of you who have subscriptions to either service may now get your hands on it before the official unveiling on November 18th.
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16.11.2009 Office 2010 Beta Available for Download via MSDN and TechNet
The Beta bits of Office 2010 Beta along with Office Web Applications are now up on MSDN and TechNet Plus.
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16.11.2009 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 RTM will on MSDN within days
Rumors have been flying everywhere that Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 will be RTM (Released to Manufacturing) and on MSDN in a matter of days. Orginally thought to be on MSDN for download on October 14th, the release supposedly got slipped because the final RC build failed a regression test.
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Viewing Your MSDN Product Keys Off-Line
Richard Macdonald: If you have an MSDN subscription, then you'll know that the subscription includes a set of product keys for use with the versions
of Office, Windows, etc that your subscription gives you access to. The keys can be viewed on-line at the MSDN subscriber site, but this isn't great
if you don't have any network access, and even then it's not all that convenient to have to log on each time to get a key.
Now,
there is an option to export your keys to an XML file, which means you can have them available off-line. However, XML isn't the most user-friendly
format...
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10.03.2008MSDN Subscriber Downloads is changing
MSDN Subscriptions WebLog: In February we will launch the biggest update to the MSDN Subscriber Downloads experience yet. Were making it a lot easier
and faster to find your downloads and access your Product Keys, and were adding new features to help with exploring available content.
Better organized - Easily find the exact download youre looking for, with all product versions organized by family
Logical layout - Access your Product Keys directly alongside your software downloads
See the
MSDN Subscriber Downloads and Product Keys walkthrough for a
preview of whats coming, and to find out how to give us feedback.
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21.01.2008Virtual XP for Windows 7 Beta released to MSDN and TechNet
According to Paul Thurrott, a beta version of Virtual XP for Windows 7 has been released to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The download comes in two
parts. The first is KB958559, an update for Windows 7 that includes Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7. The second, is another exe that installs the
Windows XP with SP3 virtual machine itself. To run Virtual XP Mode, users must be running Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate with
preferably 2GB of RAM with at least 256MB available to virtualization, and a processor that supports hardware virtualization. Many times hardware
virtualization needs to be enabled in the BIOS to be functional.
Read full story.....
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30.04.2009Dial Keys Gen 2 - FREE beta
Tina Wood:
DialKeys Gen2 provides Windows XP and Windows Vista touch, thumb and pen devices
with an interface for text input, 2 clicks email, Geo Tagged pictures snapping, instant access to location services, and many more features. I
couldn't resist sitting down, or standing up with
Dial Keys to get the skinny on their newest version. Some
new additions and features include the Picture Snapper Features: it transforms your UMPC into a portable camera powerhouse that has the capability of
time and GPS, tagging your photos and directly paste it into an open application in three clicks. Take pictures and paste them directly into Documents
(e.g. Live Writer, Word, ¦) Snap pictures and upload them automatically to web or ftp sites. Time and GPS stamps if enabled, are embedded in the
snapped pictures. This allows you to easily organize the photos on maps or on time lines, a feature travelers and surveyors are keen on.
And like I said earlier
Dial Keys Gen 2 works on XP. Not that any of you aren't running Vista but
just in case you know somebody who knows somebody's cousin who has an ex-boyfriend who met Hillary Clinton once that's still running XP. Just
saying, it works on XP too.
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29.01.2008How to Move Your Windows XP Application to Windows 7
Yochay Kiriaty has put together a series of posts to help you move your
Windows XP application to
Windows 7 on the
Windows Team for Developers blog. The series began with
Is Your Application Ready for
Windows 7 RTM? and continues with
User Account Control Data
Redirection. Other posting are promised. But these two provide the keys to most issues.
With general availability of Windows
7 coming on October 22, now is the time to move those Windows XP applications to Windows 7. Almost all applications that run under Windows Vista
will work well with Windows 7.
But what should you look for in those applications that just run on Windows XP or
earlier?
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05.08.2009System Builders: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2c RTM
Windows XP Professional with
Service Pack 2c has released
to manufacturing and will be
available to system builders
in September 2007.
Due to the longevity
of Windows XP Professional, it
has become necessary to
produce more product keys for
system builders in order to
support the continued
availability of Windows XP
Professional through the
scheduled system builder
channel end-of-life (EOL) date
of January 31, 2009.
There are no other
features or fixes included in
this service pack; it will
only allow for the inclusion
of additional product keys.
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09.08.2007Microsoft runs out of Windows
Vista Keys
Apparently, Microsoft today
ran out of product keys for
Release Candidate 1 version of
its upcoming Windows Vista
operating system.
The following message was
posted on Windows Vista's
Connect website:
"9-5-06 - We are
currently out of additional
keys for package 5342 and Up
Ultimate. We will have more
keys available for download
within 72 hours. Please do NOT
send mail to MCHelp or LHBeta
regarding this issue."
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08.09.2006Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2c Release
Windows XP Professional with
Service Pack 2c has released
to manufacturing and will be
available to system builders
in September 2007.
Critical Action Item:
System builders who use
imaging must create new
Windows XP Professional images
with Service Pack 2c when
shipping Service Pack 2c
product keys; otherwise end
users will not be able to
complete installation.
SP2c to Resolve
Shortage of Windows XP Product
Keys
Due to the
longevity of Windows XP
Professional, it has become
necessary to produce more
product keys for system
builders in order to support
the continued availability of
Windows XP Professional
through the scheduled system
builder channel end-of-life
(EOL) date of January 31,
2009.
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10.08.2007Windows XP SP3 Upcoming Release to Automatic Updates
Nick MacKechnie: Microsoft is committed to providing quality products to customers. As part of this commitment, we would like to remind you that
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be released to Automatic Updates shortly. The third service pack to Windows XP includes the previously released
updates and hotfixes to Windows XP, creating a new baseline for servicing.
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07.07.2008Installing XP Embedded optional updates without rebuilding images
In October, Microsoft released the first in a series of optional updates for Windows XP Embedded, planned to be released on every even-numbered month.
Implementing these normally requires rebuilding XP Embedded images, but a
new posting on the
Embedded Windows Team's blog discusses ways to get around that.
In her posting, Microsoft Embedded Program Manager Lynda Allen
notes that, "Rebuilding the image is the most reliable way to get the fix(es), but some customers do not want that hassle for hundreds of deployed
devices if they can just push down some files and .REG keys to the runtime using the mechanism they already have for servicing the device."
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29.12.2007Remotely restarting Windows XP
If you are using Remote Desktop quite a lot, you may need to restart your XP machine remotely, but there is no option to restart or shutdown the
machine. The only options available are Log Off and Disconnect.
To restart or to reboot XP machines remotely, use 'shutdown'
command from the command console.
Run cmd.exe, and type 'shutdown -r -t 0' to restart the machine.
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24.11.2007Microsoft expands XP SP3 beta, but not yet to public
Microsoft said late Monday that it had expanded its beta test of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to subscribers of its MSDN and TechNet programs...
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04.12.2007Win7 Beta Download Date Extended
After a rough start with distributing the beta, Microsoft must feel guilty. They have extended the time available for public testers to download and
obtain keys for the beta.
All the way up to February 10, downloads and keys will be available for public download. After that date, if
you have the download, keys will still be available.
This cutoff date does not include MSDN and Technet subscribers; the beta along with
the keys will be available throughout the entire testing phase.
The expiration date for the beta is
August 1, 2009 with an RC release to selected testers scheduled for before that
date.
If you thought you missed out, but still want to get your hands on the beta, now's the time to do it!
Resources:
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28.01.2009Test automation with Windows XP Embedded
Windows XP Embedded is essentially a developer-customized, slimmed-down version of
the Windows XP operating system intended for use on devices like game consoles, information kiosks, network appliances, and the like.
With the rapid growth in the use of mobile and embedded devices, this platform is increasingly important. But do you know enough about Windows XP
Embedded to develop for the platform or effectively test your applications there?
In the
October issue of MSDN Magazine,
Dr. James McCaffrey and
Mike Hall, a Senior Product Manager in the Microsoft
Mobile and Embedded Devices group, explain how you can
create
lightweight but powerful UI test automation for software systems that run on Windows XP Embedded.
Don't forget to
browse the code
online.
You can get more
Test Run insight in the MSDN Magazine archives,
or subscribe to the
RSS feed for notification of new columns.
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10.10.2007MS: Valid Vista Family Discount Keys Coming
Microsoft said Friday
afternoon that it was in the
process of issuing new keys to
those who may have received
invalid ones through the Vista
Family Discount program...
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03.02.2007MSDN Subscriber Downloads will be UNAVAILABLE this weekend for DB Upgrade
The system that hosts the MSDN and TechNet Subscriber Downloads content will be unavailable intermittently over this weekend for a database
upgrade.
Start: Friday, October 5th, 2007 5:00 PM PDT
End: Monday, October 8th, 2007 2:00 AM PDT
Duration: 57 hours
Impacted Services:
- Subscribers will have intermittent or no access to Subscriber Downloads.
Not Impacted Services:
- Product Keys are expected to remain available.
- Chat service will be available for
its normal operating hours.
- Newsgroup no-spam alias registration will remain available.
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06.10.2007More info on Windows XP support, downgrades from Windows Vista
M3 Sweatt: It's been a busy couple of weeks, what with reviews last week and the Engineering Excellence - Trustworthy Computing Forum this week. In
that time, I've been pinged and discussed several times the misunderstandings on Windows XP: several customers contacted me, concerned that they
would not be able to purchase computers with Windows XP after June 30th. A couple of people were even concerned that support ends for Windows XP at
the end of June. Both of these are misconceptions and not generally true, and I'd like to call out a few resources to help people understand the
options they have today and after June 30th.
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06.06.2008Microsoft: Vista SP1 Demand Behind XP SP3 Delay
Microsoft on Tuesday said that due to "high customer demand" for Vista service pack 1, MSDN and TechNet subscribers will have to wait longer than
the general public to get their hands on Windows XP service pack 3.
In an email to ChannelWeb, a spokesperson said Microsoft
expects to make XP SP3 available for download to TechNet and MSDN subscribers on May 2,
three days
after it begins distributing XP SP3 via Windows Update and the Download Center.
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23.04.2008XP SP3 Integrated Images on MSDN & Technet
Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3, to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers.
Integrated retail and volume license installs are available in the following languages: Chinese Simplified, English, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish. Additional languages will be made available soon.
Please see the MSDN Subscriber
Downloads or TechNet Plus Subscriber Downloads to obtain these releases. The main TechNet resource page for Windows XP SP3 is updated with this
information.
File Name: en_windows_xp_professional_with_service_pack_3_x86_cd_vl_x14-73974.iso
Date Posted (UTC): 5/2/2008
12:05:18AM
SHA-1: 66ac289ae27724c5ae17139227cbe78c01eefe40
CRC: FFFFFFFF
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03.05.2008Full retail and volume license installs of XP SP3 available to MSDN/TechNet Plus subscribers
Chris Keroack: Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3, to MSDN and TechNet Plus
subscribers. Integrated retail and volume license installs are available in the following languages: Chinese Simplified, English, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish. Additional languages will be made available soon.
Please see the
MSDN Subscriber Downloads or
TechNet Plus Subscriber Downloads to obtain these
releases. The
main TechNet
resource page for Windows XP SP3 is updated with this information.
We have recently identified a compatibility issue between
Windows XP SP3 and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS). Microsoft Dynamics RMS customers should not install Windows XP SP3 until a fix
has been fully tested and made available. In addition, Windows XP SP3 will be available on Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center soon.
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