Software & Support Verlag just announced that they are going to offer a free Netbook (1.6GHz, 1GB, 160GB) for EKON 13 attendees.
Where is the catch? You need to have attended at least one previous EKON, and you have to sign up for at least 3 conference days. So if you attended the very first EKON and never came back – it might be the right time check for you old receipts and see what’s cooking in the Delphi labs.
Details about this offer : EKON 13 Alumni
EKON 13 will take place from 28.09.2009 – 02.10.2009 in Darmstadt, Germany
Session details will be made public soon. We already received about 100 session proposals. I’ll make sure that that the newest features like Touch support as presented at Delphi Live! last week will get covered of course.
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I just successfully finished the upgrade from Win7 Beta to RC (64-bit edition). It took a couple of hours, but so far all worked seamlessly.
All (important) systems seem to be up and running. D2009 starts, compiles and runs my last projects – interestingly the 64-bit Thread issue seems to occur less often now.
Upgrading from Beta to RC is not recommended though – in fact the installer will refuse to do so. Only upgrading from Vista is a valid option.This is not really because of technical reasons, it’s mostly because MS isn’t interested in feedback for Beta –> RC upgrades, as this won’t be a function of the final product.
Fortunately there is an easy way to “patch” the setup, so that it will allow you to do that upgrade. Steps are explained in this Windows 7 Engineering blog entry. It’s quite a long article with a lot of topics. Look for “Here’s what you can do to bypass the check for pre-release upgrade IF YOU REALLY REALLY NEED TO:”
Be careful : My upgrade worked fine, but MS gives absolutely no warranty on this. Backup your data …
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I am currently in the process of upgrading from Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 RC. The installer just showed the following warning (roughly translated from German):
The functionality of the following programs may be affected by the upgrade. It is recommended to de-install these programs before running the upgrade:
[…]
Interesting that Microsoft cares about us Delphi users.
Unfortunately MS did not detect Delphi 2009 which is on this machine as well. That one still has a problem with Win7’s 64bit edition. MS changed something in the area of Threads and how a debugger can attach to them. I would have expected from such a smart installer to explain how to fix that issue 
(Seriously, that issue is logged in RAID and Nick will certainly make sure that a proper solution is developed)
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