Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have both RTMed!! Build 7600 was declared as RTM

Below is a picture of Steve Ballmer and Steven Sinofsky. Steve Ballmer is holding the gold disk, he must be feeling relieved.

When will you get Windows 7 RTM?

That is the big question isn't it? Developers with MSDN Subscriptions will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English on August 6th and remaining languages by October 1st.

More answers are here:

This week I bought a new netbook. The Acer Aspire One 751h (what's in a name). It's an amazing little machine, but I guess everything is amazing at my age I can still remember things like the Commodore 64 and the first x86.

Standard, it only comes with 1Gb of RAM but it supports a maximum of 2GB so I o...

If you are upgrading from windows xp to windows 7 there is a change in the way you install Internet Information Services. On windows xp you would install IIS from add/remove windows components. This is different in Windows 7; it is very similar how it is done on Vista.

Go to Control Panel and click on Programs, on the following screen click on Turn Windows features on or off (see image below)

After that, select Internet Information Services and click ok

Every time you buy a new computer you of course need to install a bunch of software. In my case this would be stuff mostly from MSDN

Visual Studio 2008 + Service pack 1

SQL Server 2008 + Service pack 1

Expression Studio 2

Win XP SP 3 (to run on a virtual machine)

Windows 7 RC (to run on a virtual machine)

Visual Studio 2010 (to run inside the Win 7 virtual machine)

Office 2007 Ultimate

The nice thing about Virtual machines is that you can mount an ISO right inside the machine, this way you don't have to burn a CD or install a ISO...