No More Windows 7 RC Downloads After Aug 20
With Windows 7 having gone final and been released to manufacturing, playing with the release candidate does seem a little old hat – but it's also free. So, if you're still on the fence about Windows 7, or you're wondering what all the fuss is about, you have until this Thursday to download a copy of the RC.
"Just a reminder that you have until this Thursday, August 20th 2009 to download the Windows 7 Release Candidate," wrote Stephen L. Rose in the Windows Team Blog. "After that date, you will still be able to register your product and get registration keys but, the media will no longer be available for download."
We're certain that the majority of you curious about Windows 7 may have already given it a spin, but if you haven't and you have a spare machine around not doing very much, we highly recommend you take advantage of this free trial period.
what i do like is the xp mode
The worst part about trials like that it they usually tell you what YOU WILL HAVE TO DO AFTER YOU,VE INSTALL IT witch is a real pain in the neck.
How many times have i been trick into installing a trial. Don't worry i've used their contact us and told them how i felt about trials
and manufacturers are saying wait until Oct for new drivers.
pretty lame
I take it were talking about Creative? iv given up on them
Dextermet, wow you sad person or wot, pick up a dictionary and then learn the meaning of 'trial software', dont blame MS for giving you a FREE key.
LOL at your complaint, seriously, dont like a TRIAL, then buy the real thing when it comes out instead. ALL trial softwares, let me repeat that ALL TRIAL softwares, hang on I dont think you quite got it, ALL TRIAL SOFTWARE RUNS OUT AFTER A SET DATE! I trust this will help to get in to your head?
All other trials last for about 1 month, or even less and they DO NOT give full features as part of their trials, yet MS chose to give the FULL PACKAGE, including all the extra's like Virtual PC, full features of their highest package aka Windows Ultimate, Windows Media Centre, etc etc.
Im sure MS will take your concerns seriously, NOT!
Boxa786: your going the other extreme and i guess its even worse but what is to expect from some one writing half his post in caps ? ... The trial versions of software are so you can try it out before you buy it or if you don't like the trial you know you wont have to buy the full version.
If you dont like the trial and are still moronic enough to buy it you should be shot in one knee and fed to domestic cats in an airtight box made out of lima beans.
Specially if you really believe an RC edition is a trial.
My ga-p35-ds4's onboard sound works flawlessly on the device. But I suppose some drivers can be tricky indeed. Sometimes when I boot, my system takes 10 minutes to get to the loading my profile part, and when it's finally done it won't do anything. That's caused by kaspersky antivirus' filter driver fucking up at times though, and not really a microsoft problem. I suppose your sound problem's a bit of hte same. I've got issues with soundmax at work too. More specificly, if I deploy an xp mashine that contains soundmax hd drivers on a system that has an onboard intel ac97, it'll crash (without bug stop) as soon as it tries to play a sound. The problem is the soundmax control panel interfering with 'foreign' drivers business.
Soundmax/ADI are a bunch of idiots - every sound chip they make just about requires DIFFERENT drivers and NONE are available via them and only available from motherboard/oem manafacturers so there so out of date its not funny.
As for soundblaster - i got a SB live card that works with vista 100% and stutters with windows 7 - not to fear, Realtek knows how to make chipsets and drivers and what not - no issues to report after dumping a poorly supported product from a stupid company - gone are the days of SB16.
Torrent it.
I've been using it since the RC came out with no issue at all.
In fact, there is a high chance this will be an entire new system upgrade at the same time.
and manufacturers are saying wait until Oct for new drivers.
pretty lame"
You mean it's lame that the new drivers only come out when the OS goes on sale? Come on...
there are other choices!
caskachan - hehe. I haven't use a SB card in years.