Microsoft has announced that the release candidate of Windows 7 will be available for download on the 5th May. Those of you with a subscription to MSDN or TechNet are lucky enough to be able to download it from yesterday! The release from Microsoft is as follows…
We are pleased to announce that Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is available. Windows 7 RC is the prerelease version of Windows 7. Since this is not the final release, your PC will gather and send information to Microsoft engineers to help them check the fixes and changes made based on testing of Windows 7 Beta.
Test-drive Windows 7 RC today to see for yourself--and to show your colleagues and customers--how Windows 7 delivers improved management, security, reliability, and performance.
Download Windows 7 RC
Partners: If you have a subscription to MSDN or TechNet, you can download Windows 7 RC now. Otherwise, you can download Windows 7 RC starting May 5, 2009.
Windows 7 is, of course, the next installment of Microsofts line of desktop OSs, and is hoped to overshadow the discredited, and unloved Windows Vista.
I certainly will be looking forward to its release, as I have just about had enough of Vista to last me a while. I think there are a few nice things about it, and a few features that I now, would not be without. Although none that make the continual BSODs I get on my one machine worth it, and certainly fleshing my computers with a couple of extra GBs worth of RAM isn’t that fantastic just to run the OS.
As I have said before, Windows 7 is what Vista should have been, and if the previous release, Build 6519, is anything to go by, then the release of Windows 7 will be a spot of good news. If you have not tried 7 yet then come May, download a copy and install it in a virtual machine, or an old computer. I think you might like it.
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I certainly will be looking forward to its release, as I have just about had enough of Vista to last me a while. I think there are a few nice things about it, and a few features that I now, would not be without. Although none that make the continual BSODs I get on my one machine worth it