{"id":1225,"date":"2009-12-10T12:54:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T07:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/12\/microsoft-re-released-windows-7-usbdvd-download-tool\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T07:24:49","slug":"microsoft-re-released-windows-7-usbdvd-download-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/12\/microsoft-re-released-windows-7-usbdvd-download-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft re-released Windows 7 USB\/DVD Download tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft re-released the Windows 7 USB\/DVD Download tool under GPLv2. This tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB\/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD. Earlier it was posted @ <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/10\/windows-7-usbdvd-download-tool\/\">Windows 7 USB\/DVD Download Tool<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image-thumb.png\" width=\"473\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft combed through the code after a blogger raised concerns that it violated the GNU GPLv2. Raphael Rivera Jr. found that part of looked suspiciously like it was lifted straight from an open-source program called ImageMaster.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced it would comply with the GPL by open-sourcing the Windows 7 USB\/DVD Download Tool. In late November, Microsoft said the process was taking longer than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Now the project is now hosted on CodePlex.com, Microsoft&#8217;s Open Source software project hosting repository, and the code can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/wudt.codeplex.com\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The tool can also now be downloaded from the Microsoft Store <a href=\"http:\/\/images2.store.microsoft.com\/prod\/clustera\/framework\/w7udt\/1.0\/en-us\/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft re-released the Windows 7 USB\/DVD Download tool under GPLv2. This tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,38,14],"tags":[55,47,262],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-news","category-software","category-windows-7","tag-installation","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}