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Links to Digital River's servers for Windows 7 SP1 bitsВ were widely published shortly after SP1 was released.

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Worth noting: A year ago, Digital River announced in an SEC filing that it had come to an agreement with MicrosoftВ to 'build, host and manage the Microsoft Store, an e-commerce store that supports the sale and fulfillment of Microsoft and third party software as well as consumer electronics products, to customers throughout the world.' It's possible that downloads from the Microsoft Store may, in fact, be coming from Digital River servers. Same applies to retail discs, the process of ordering, shipping, nominal fee.

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The persons these Digital River downloads would be most suitable for, even if they didn't purchase through the Student upgrade program are persons with OEM preloads who might have lost their recovery partitions or media and can't bother with the process of obtaining recovery media.

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If you bought Windows 7 retail, then it will already be accompanied with install media, if you bought it from the Microsoft Store for instance, you have the option of downloading it anytime you want or have discs shipped to you or if its a box license, you will have two physical discs.

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The way I see it, the license takes precedence over the medium. Since it is being download directly from Digital River servers, as long as you own a genuine license, which you probably should have already, then you are free to download it. Microsoft MVP and Answers forum moderator Andre de Costa put it this way: Over the years, many Windows experts - including MVPs posting on the Microsoft Answers forumВ - pointed customers to the Digital River links that contained real, direct-from-Microsoft copies of the software. Most Windows customers came to know about Digital River through various Windows student/academic discount offers: Digital River apparently ran the student discount programs and provided 'genuine' Windows bits for download. It isn't clear if there's a technical problem or if Microsoft's contract with Digital River has lapsed. But in the past few days, the links for Windows 7 SP1 versions at Digital River stopped working. That changed several years ago, when Microsoft contracted with outsourcing company Digital RiverВ to provide download services for Windows bits. Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool 6.For Windows customers without immediate access to MSDN (or the defunct TechNet ), acquiring genuine Windows ISOs has been a frustrating and ridiculously complex experience: Microsoft tells you to ask your hardware manufacturer for a Windows ISO the hardware manufacturer either ignores the request or sends you a crap-filled recovery DVD, frequently charging you for the inconvenience. If you have further questions, please use the WinCert Forum to get in touch, so that other users can also benefit from the discussion. New links are generated on a first come first served basis, with users who enable the idle resource donation getting preferential treatment. Generation of new links for these products is throttled, and not every download is always available in every language. Important: As of Version 6.00, we're adding back an experimental feature to generate links for Windows 7 and Office 2010. NET Framework 4.x, Internet Explorer 8 or newer. Our tool accesses that TechBench site, and unlocks a large number of hidden download files on it. Afterwards, Microsoft made a limited selection of downloads available on their TechBench site.

These downloads were pulled in early 2014.

In the past, Microsoft provided disk images for many of their products through their subcontractor 'Digital River'.

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This tool allows an easy and comfortable way to download genuine Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 disk images (ISO) directly from Microsoft's servers, as well as Office 2010, Office 2013, Office 2016, and Office for Mac.

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