By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews
The first “real” copies of Build 7100, the Windows 7 Release Candidate — quite likely, the only one there will be — were officially distributed to subscribers to Microsoft’s MSDN and TechNet subscribers at 11:00 am EDT / 8:00 am PDT Thursday morning. Included in this morning’s distribution are the 32- and 64-bit editions of the Ultimate SKU of the operating system, plus the all-new Windows Driver Kit Release 7 for those who’ll be building device drivers for the new OS using the revised driver model; the Automated Installation Kit for remote deployments using servers; and the updated Windows 7 SDK RC in x86, x64, and Itanium editions.
11:15 am EDT April 30, 2009 - Almost immediately upon the RC’s public release, the response time for Microsoft’s Web services became extremely slow. It’s a good sign for the company in one respect: Not all of Microsoft’s developers took the bait and downloaded one of last week’s leaks.
11:35 am EDT - The slowdown lifted about three minutes ago, and downloads resumed at a respectable pace — fair enough when something this important and popular is happening.
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