Office 2007 RTM on MSDN

I just downloaded and installed the Office 2007 RTM off MSDN. I know its not Vista but at least it proves that the dates on msblog.org are accurate. Here's to waiting (im)patiently till Friday.

Bellerephon wrote:

I just downloaded and installed the Office 2007 RTM off MSDN. I know its not Vista but at least it proves that the dates on msblog.org are accurate. Here's to waiting (im)patiently till Friday.

Or Saturday in our case (we're GMT+12 and currently on Daylight Saving...so it'll probably be Saturday afternoon for us...we used to have to wait a long time for the updates to get propagated through all the mirrors and stuff, but that seems to have improved a lot).

I'm downloading Office now...although I won't be installing it until the weekend anyway, since it's going on the new machine I'm planning to put Vista on.

Bellerephon wrote:

I just downloaded and installed the Office 2007 RTM off MSDN. I know its not Vista but at least it proves that the dates on msblog.org are accurate. Here's to waiting (im)patiently till Friday.

Kill any Chimeras lately? 

blowdart wrote:

I'm still seeing the scheduled maintenance message.

Which is very out of date even taking time zones into account

Im guessing that the MSDN guys went home after the maintenence bone tired and forgot about the message. 9PM on a Friday, all i'd be thinking about is how I DON'T want to be at work still, missing dinner with the family and BSG. They probably started the propagation process right after finishing.

I'd rather seen it the other way around, first Vista and then Office 2007, but hey, at least the load on the servers will be spread, so hopefully the download of Vista will be as fast as the Office 2007 one (which came in at a steady 300 KB/sec.

dotnetjunkie wrote:

I'd rather seen it the other way around, first Vista and then Office 2007, but hey, at least the load on the servers will be spread, so hopefully the download of Vista will be as fast as the Office 2007 one (which came in at a steady 300 KB/sec.

Yeah my speeds for pulling down the .iso's was good... fast.

still have not burned and loaded yet... to many things going on at one time tonight

dotnetjunkie wrote:

I'd rather seen it the other way around, first Vista and then Office 2007, but hey, at least the load on the servers will be spread, so hopefully the download of Vista will be as fast as the Office 2007 one (which came in at a steady 300 KB/sec.

I'm getting around 40 KB/sec at best...but that's what passes for "broadband" in New Zealand for you.

Still, only about 12 minutes to go.

Since we are all doing the speed contest, i'll chime in with my 650KBps (max speed for Comcast).

Bellerephon wrote:

Since we are all doing the speed contest, i'll chime in with my 650KBps (max speed for Comcast).

650kB/s * 8b/B = 5.2Mb/s

wow....  haven't seen a cable connection max out before.  Especially on Microsoft's download servers!

That's suprising, I routinely max out my connection on Microsoft's servers. Comcast Cable is 6MBps here, I assume that there is TCP overhead to explain the other 0.8.

Mine downloaded at about 65kb/s.  That's about normal for my home ISP and MSDN/Connect downloads. 

I can actually connect to the VPN running on a server we have at a co-location facility and download through the tunnel at 8x that speed if I wanted... *shrug* 400 meg download though, still didn't take all that long compared to build after build of Vista.

I think I'll wait on installing this puppy until after I have Vista RTM.   It'll be nice to emerge from the beta trenches for a while (except for VS2005 SP1 of course).