Preview release.

BunnyJ said:

I'm afraid this place will go NUTS!!
And not in a good way.

Of course it will, we will all wanting to share our experiences, insights including the for and against and basically complain.

Nuccii said:

Of course it will, we will all wanting to share our experiences, insights including the for and against and basically complain.

I for one hope is not a lot of complaining.

With all the pent up demand for this release my thoughts are on the day of the release will the M$ servers be able to cope and give us a complete download? I hope its an ISO not an installer that insist on a previous version being present and none of that having to download and update as you go which could end up in disaster with such a high load on the servers.

Really looking forward to this, I have a spare SSD primed and ready to go

Indianatone said:

With all the pent up demand for this release my thoughts are on the day of the release will the M$ servers be able to cope and give us a complete download? I hope its an ISO not an installer that insist on a previous version being present and none of that having to download and update as you go which could end up in disaster with such a high load on the servers.

They could require you to install a Microsoft supplied download manager to load balance the servers etc. IMHO a bit torrent client would be the way to go, but they'll never do that.

Just be on the lookout for fake ISO downloads everyone. This is one heck of an opportunity for hackers. I will use Linux to download the ISO. Just to be on the safe side. That way, any windows executable booby traps will not automatically execute by itself on Linux environment. :)

I'll get it via MSDN, if there is no other official Microsoft Web link to a download. Well, assuming it goes up on MSDN. crosses fingers.