Where can I download Windows 7 (legally from Microsoft)?

I just bought a serial for Windows 7 on-line from the Microsoft store (the most painful shopping experience EVER!). I selected that I wanted to download my version of Windows 7 after purchase. After payment, I have listed a Product Key but no download link in sight.

Where do I download my Windows 7 ISO to burn to disk?

Note: I'm not a Technet or MSDN subscriber.

Solution 1:

The link should have been emailed to you with your receipt. More than likely it will not be an ISO but a set of ESD installation files. There is a tutorial here that explains how to convert to an ISO.

If the download link was not emailed to you I would contact customer service with your invoice number and ask to resend the information.

Solution 2:

Solution for OEM Licenses

Microsoft's decision to take down the Digital River ISOs, leaving the Microsoft Software Recovery website as the only option, left OEM owners out in the cold, since in order to download an ISO today one needs the product-key of a retail version of Windows.

However, one can still head to the Microsoft DigitalRiver Mirror, a German mirror that has done an exceptional job of gathering up the Digital River ISOs and uploading them as torrent files. They have almost all the English versions, and a few in other languages.

This is entirely legal, as these ISOs cannot be used without a valid product-key for the Windows version that is downloaded and installed.

One would need a bit-torrent client, such as uTorrent, to download these files.

How to use the bit-torrent client to download such an ISO is well documented with screenshots in the article: Download Windows 7 ISOs, Legally and for Free.