Incase anyone didn't know Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing.
MSDN had it available from Thursday night (06/08).
It is faster than the beta and the RC. (Which are both faster than Vista) I think the XP faithful will probably stick to the old guns and not like it.
For those of you who have access to the RTM. Installation is a doddle. Have done 4 installs so far. 2 Upgrades and 2 clean installs. Upgrades work with no hassles (1 from Vista Home Premium to 7 HP, other Vista x64 Ultimate to 7 x64 Ultimate) Massive difference in time between clean and upgrade installs. Less than 20 mins on my main pc for clean install. Couple of hours for upgrade.
Only issue I had (till this morning) was the intel chipset driver. Intel don't have a Win 7 driver avail (at time of writing) on their site. ASUS however have a new intel win 7 driver avail and I've used it on my other machines with no issues.
I did like Vista but 7 does seem that bit nicer. So for the sceptics who either wait for SP1 or stick with what they know. This one is deffo worth a look.
MSDN had it available from Thursday night (06/08).
It is faster than the beta and the RC. (Which are both faster than Vista) I think the XP faithful will probably stick to the old guns and not like it.
For those of you who have access to the RTM. Installation is a doddle. Have done 4 installs so far. 2 Upgrades and 2 clean installs. Upgrades work with no hassles (1 from Vista Home Premium to 7 HP, other Vista x64 Ultimate to 7 x64 Ultimate) Massive difference in time between clean and upgrade installs. Less than 20 mins on my main pc for clean install. Couple of hours for upgrade.
Only issue I had (till this morning) was the intel chipset driver. Intel don't have a Win 7 driver avail (at time of writing) on their site. ASUS however have a new intel win 7 driver avail and I've used it on my other machines with no issues.
I did like Vista but 7 does seem that bit nicer. So for the sceptics who either wait for SP1 or stick with what they know. This one is deffo worth a look.























