Windows 7 Release Candidate Available
Windows 7 RC is available early, and here’s the link :
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx
Will be available for download until July 2009. Also, the number of Windows Keys for the Release Candidate are not capped.
There is not yet any update on the official windows 7 team blog stating that downloads have been made available – however they are.
Still don’t like that you have to do a fresh install if you have Windows 7 Beta already. Do look at the Installation Instructions for W7RC.
Note: It sucks – however you have to sign up for a windows live id to download Windows 7 release candidate. The page is really slow – seems a lot of people are downloading. I ran into an error.
Update 2: Have the file, doing a back-up and will then install Windows 7 Release Candidate. Starting a new post to cover it.
Update: After 5-6 attempts I finally have the Akamai download manager downloading W7RC. Speed is really, really slow.
BTW, the Release Candidate has this rather interesting little feature -
The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you’ll need to rebuild your test machine using a valid version of Windows before the software expires. You’ll need to rebuild your test PC to replace the OS and reinstall all your programs and data.
Shutdowns every 2 hours – that’s rather infantile.
Related posts
Filed under: Windows 7 Downloads
I must say its great piece of software. Much much better & faster than Vista. Much faster & stable. Using it since one n half months, no issues still now. Had a lil compatibility issue with Tune up utilities 2009 & Nero 8…but it went fine after a few updates. Brilliant only this much I can say. People having an older sound card & graphics card supporting mainly Xp & vista might have probs finding their drivers… Mine works fav.