Vista - Office 2007 on Technet / MSDN

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:42:32 -0000, David R. Norton MVP
<d_r_nortonNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

> "Tom Ziegmann" <tziegmann@nospam.msn.com> wrote in
> news128B2F4-054E-48D4-96EC-79351E274D7C@microsoft.com:
>
>> It should be up sometime today. It just up to MS to decide when
>> the want to press the button.
>
> You have to decide if you want to download it at 12 bytes an hour (OK,
> that might be a bit exaggerated) or wait a few days when it should
> download at somewhere near normal speed.
>
> I grabbed the product keys and figured I'll try for the ISO around
> Wednesday.
>


Or you could argue, that now is a GOOD time to get it down, before Vista
is unleashed, when that's on there, things will REALLY bog down...

Peaked here at 462, then fell slightly to 385..

--
Mike Hall
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User



"Mark Gillespie" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
newsp.tixc6uldj2q9yy@mark-pc.draytek...
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:52:31 -0000, Steve de Mena <steve@stevedemena.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Steve de Mena wrote:
>>> David R. Norton MVP wrote:
>>>> "Tom Ziegmann" <tziegmann@nospam.msn.com> wrote in
>>>> news128B2F4-054E-48D4-96EC-79351E274D7C@microsoft.com:
>>>>> It should be up sometime today. It just up to MS to decide when
>>>>> the want to press the button.
>>>>
>>>> You have to decide if you want to download it at 12 bytes an hour (OK,
>>>> that might be a bit exaggerated) or wait a few days when it should
>>>> download at somewhere near normal speed.
>>>>
>>>> I grabbed the product keys and figured I'll try for the ISO around
>>>> Wednesday.
>>>>
>>> 135k/sec average here. (Los Angeles, CA)
>>> Steve
>>
>> Actually I have two threads going, so double that to about 270k/sec.
>>
>> Steve
>
> 180k/sec (UK)

"Mark Gillespie" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in
newsp.tixdd6fsj2q9yy@mark-pc.draytek:

> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:42:32 -0000, David R. Norton MVP
> <d_r_nortonNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

>> You have to decide if you want to download it at 12 bytes an hour
>> (OK, that might be a bit exaggerated) or wait a few days when it
>> should download at somewhere near normal speed.
>>
>> I grabbed the product keys and figured I'll try for the ISO
>> around Wednesday.

> Or you could argue, that now is a GOOD time to get it down, before
> Vista is unleashed, when that's on there, things will REALLY bog
> down...

If all the info is correct, Vista won't be up until Friday, that's why
I figured Wednesday would be good.

However, I decided to try it and it's not too slow, around 120kb/s. I
don't mind the speed, I figured I could either download, burn and
install or watch the Cardinals lose again.... <sigh>

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:29:12 -0000, David R. Norton MVP
<d_r_nortonNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

> "Mark Gillespie" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in
> newsp.tixdd6fsj2q9yy@mark-pc.draytek:
>
>> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:42:32 -0000, David R. Norton MVP
>> <d_r_nortonNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>> You have to decide if you want to download it at 12 bytes an hour
>>> (OK, that might be a bit exaggerated) or wait a few days when it
>>> should download at somewhere near normal speed.
>>>
>>> I grabbed the product keys and figured I'll try for the ISO
>>> around Wednesday.
>
>> Or you could argue, that now is a GOOD time to get it down, before
>> Vista is unleashed, when that's on there, things will REALLY bog
>> down...
>
> If all the info is correct, Vista won't be up until Friday, that's why
> I figured Wednesday would be good.
>

Friday is past the quoted 7 days from RTM that the MSDN team made a song
and dance about. I doubt after making such a bold statement of "within 7
days of RTM", they will screw things up by delivering 9 days after RTM,
that would be embarrassing (but typical based on MSDN's previous poor
performance)..

"Mark Gillespie" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in
newsp.tixglzqtj2q9yy@desktop64:

> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:29:12 -0000, David R. Norton MVP
> <d_r_nortonNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

>> If all the info is correct, Vista won't be up until Friday,
>> that's why I figured Wednesday would be good.

> Friday is past the quoted 7 days from RTM that the MSDN team made
> a song and dance about. I doubt after making such a bold
> statement of "within 7 days of RTM", they will screw things up by
> delivering 9 days after RTM, that would be embarrassing (but
> typical based on MSDN's previous poor performance)..

Yes, but Friday is what was announced so I'll be surprised if it's up
sooner.

I have a 15Mbit cable connection and downloaded it at over 650KB/second. Of
course, it was 8pm when I downloaded it.

-Rob

"Tom Ziegmann" <tziegmann@nospam.msn.com> wrote in message
news:253EBD84-D1BE-4BF5-BC03-AD029ED67F3D@microsoft.com...
> How are you getting such good speeds. I have a 24mbit cable connection and
> it is peaking at 100k/sec.
>
> --
> Tom Ziegmann
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft Core OS Beta Tester
> "Steve de Mena" <steve@stevedemena.com> wrote in message
> news:OKOOcTqBHHA.3536@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Steve de Mena wrote:
>>> David R. Norton MVP wrote:
>>>> "Tom Ziegmann" <tziegmann@nospam.msn.com> wrote in
>>>> news128B2F4-054E-48D4-96EC-79351E274D7C@microsoft.com:
>>>>> It should be up sometime today. It just up to MS to decide when
>>>>> the want to press the button.
>>>>
>>>> You have to decide if you want to download it at 12 bytes an hour (OK,
>>>> that might be a bit exaggerated) or wait a few days when it should
>>>> download at somewhere near normal speed.
>>>>
>>>> I grabbed the product keys and figured I'll try for the ISO around
>>>> Wednesday.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 135k/sec average here. (Los Angeles, CA)
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>> Actually I have two threads going, so double that to about 270k/sec.
>>
>> Steve
>

Just an FYI, there seems to be something wrong with the keys generated
on-line in MSDN Subscriber downloads... Grabbed all the RTM ISOs for Office
2007, but Groove/Project/Visio use the same key and all require activation.
In the past this hasn't been a problem - I mean, the MSDN keys tend to be
good for multiple activations. Well in this case, I activated Project first,
then Visio and Groove refused telling me that I had already reached my
activation limit. Phoning the activation helpline and pleading seemed to
work, but clearly there is something wrong (I mean, I used brand new keys
that I had generated a couple of hours ago and used them to install on one
PC)...

-----------------------
Russell Fishman

"Tom Ziegmann" wrote:

> For those of you with TechNet or MSDN, the keys are live for Office 2007 but
> the ISOs are not yet.
>
> --
> Tom Ziegmann
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft Core OS Beta Tester
>
> *Feel free to contact me via e-mail if you
> have an urgent issue, otherwise please use
> the newsgroups*
>
>
>

Yes, I have the same problem with my Groove/Project/Visio. I can't activate
them online.

"Russell Fishman" wrote:

> Just an FYI, there seems to be something wrong with the keys generated
> on-line in MSDN Subscriber downloads... Grabbed all the RTM ISOs for Office
> 2007, but Groove/Project/Visio use the same key and all require activation.
> In the past this hasn't been a problem - I mean, the MSDN keys tend to be
> good for multiple activations. Well in this case, I activated Project first,
> then Visio and Groove refused telling me that I had already reached my
> activation limit. Phoning the activation helpline and pleading seemed to
> work, but clearly there is something wrong (I mean, I used brand new keys
> that I had generated a couple of hours ago and used them to install on one
> PC)...
>
> -----------------------
> Russell Fishman
>
> "Tom Ziegmann" wrote:
>
> > For those of you with TechNet or MSDN, the keys are live for Office 2007 but
> > the ISOs are not yet.
> >
> > --
> > Tom Ziegmann
> > Microsoft Certified Professional
> > Microsoft Core OS Beta Tester
> >
> > *Feel free to contact me via e-mail if you
> > have an urgent issue, otherwise please use
> > the newsgroups*
> >
> >
> >