Windows 7 Release Candidate out May 5th
Windows 7’s first Release Candidate is coming -
- Available to the public on May 5th (at the Windows 7 Team Blog).
- Technet and MSDN subscribers get it on April 30th.
- Dell and other OEM partners are already testing it.
Microsoft continues to claim that General Availability for Windows 7 will be in 2010. However a May 5th RC release indicates that Microsoft will have Windows 7 out by end September to early October 2009 – well in time for the 2009 holiday season.
Windows 7 RC is already available at Torrent Sites as RC Build 7100 (standard warnings apply – try it at your own risk). Xtreme CPU went so far as to install a Windows 7 Pre-Release Candidate build on a netbook and found it works as well as Windows XP -
As for our hands on feel of Windows 7 on the netbook? While the 7068 Build we used was the considerably more resource intensive Ultimate version, it actually performed almost identically as the specialized ULCPC version of XP Home.
People are already putting up Windows 7 videos –
ZDNet has a Windows 7 RC image gallery and praises the RC -
The performance of the Windows 7 builds post the Beta 1 (build 7000) has improved dramatically.
Windows 7 Beta was really impressive – I’ve been using it as my main OS since it came out and apart from IE horror stories everything has been awesome.
The whole ‘go back to vista and then install Windows 7 RC’ thing scares me (read the official W7 team blog for the request) so I’m either -
- Going to do a fresh install of Windows 7 RC; or
- Buy a netbook and install windows 7 RC on it.
In either case will add on videos and pictures for you.
f-default have listed their three favorite features and have to admit it looks really exciting. Windows 7 Beta was better than Vista. If W7 RC improves on that, we might be looking at one of the most successful Windows ever.
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