Windows Vista and Office 2007 through Technet and MSDN

I saw this note recently… Enjoy, Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, I.S.P.

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Announcing the availability dates of Windows Vista and Office 2007 through TechNet Plus and MSDN Subscriptions

Following the RTM of Windows and Office in the last week, we are now able to confirm the dates when the RTM versions will be available through TechNet Plus and MSDN Subscriptions.

Download availability
Office 2007	Vista
from Sunday, November 12^th	from Friday, November 17^th

Please note: replication of all files out to regional datacenters will take significant time. Specific editions will be available first, with the full range becoming available over several hours. We will be posting CD iso images to begin, followed by DVD images.

Microsoft will be shipping Windows Vista Ultimate & Office Professional Plus 2007 editions in the January shipment. All other editions will only be available from Subscriber Downloads which can be accessed from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx.

Product offering, by edition--Example MSDN:

Windows Vista and Office2007 are available in many different editions. Availability of these product editions varies by Subscription level, purchasing program and medium.

Media (CD & DVD) recipients will receive the editions indicated below in their January shipment. These will be shipping from Mid December to early January.

	Retail & Direct Subscribers (DTI)			Volume Licensing Subscribers
	Download	DVD	CD	Download	DVD	CD
Home Basic	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Home Premium	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Ultimate	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Business	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Enterprise ¹				ü	ü	ü
x64 (all editions)	ü	ü		ü	ü
Starter edition ²	ü	ü		ü	ü
N Editions ²	ü	ü		ü	ü

¹VistaEnterprise edition is exclusive to Software Assurance and Volume Licensing MSDN customers. All VL specific builds provided via MSDN must be installed using keys provided through an existing volume licensing agreement.

²Vista Starter and N editions (including x64) will not have keys available as of 11/17. These will follow in due course. K & KN x86 and x64 editions will follow with Korean localized editions.

	Retail & Direct Subscribers (DTI)			Volume Licensing Subscribers
	Download	DVD	CD	Download	DVD	CD
Professional	ü		ü	ü
Professional Plus	ü			ü
Enterprise				ü	ü (CD)	ü
Ultimate	ü	ü		ü	ü
Core components ³	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Extra components ⁴	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü

³ Accounting Professional, Groove, InfoPath, InterConnect, OneNote, Project Professional, Project Server, SharePoint Server Enterprise, SharePoint Server Standard, Visio Professional

⁴ Language Pack, Forms Server, Groove Server (x64), Outlook, Project Portfolio Server, Project Standard, Publisher, Search Server, SharePoint Designer, Visio Standard

Microsoft will be updating and blogging about availability over the coming weeks. Customers are recommended to sign up to the Technet Plus and MSDN Subscriptions RSS feed for the latest updates on availability:

See: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx
See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions for details.

[Editors Note] Rick has a post on this on the CanITPro blog http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/archive/2006/11/12/office-2007-on-technet-plus-subscriber-dl-vista-soon.aspx