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Windows 7 RC Possibly Due Out May 5

By - Source: Tom's Hardware US

Everyone’s been anxiously watching the beta builds of Windows 7 roll out, inching ever so closer to the next milestone – the release candidate.

Microsoft accidentally leaked another web page giving us a glimpse at a potential release date for Windows 7 RC.

Listed on the Microsoft Partner Program website earlier was the following text:

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.

The website has since been changed back to information pertaining to just the beta that was available since January.

According to Ars Technica’s report, Microsoft Online Concierge Chat had this to say to those who inquired: "Currently the Windows 7 RC has not been available [sic] through the TechNet subscription yet, only the Microsoft OEM partners such as Dell, Siemens are taking part in the RC's this period of test."

This confirms that the release candidate is almost ready for public consumption. Microsoft did not comment on the May 5 date, but it’s looking like it could be a possible if OEM partners are already testing it.

This also marks the second time that Microsoft let a webpage slip regarding the release candidate. Last month, a TechNet page slipped out early detailing the downloading of the RC, which also named May as being the month of availability.

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    scook9 , April 21, 2009 7:10 AM
    I have vista 64-bit on 3 pc's now......and they all run outstandingly. Frankly I am getting really tired of hearing everyone bitch and moan about how bad vista runs. It works great, as long as you get SP1. One machine is a gaming machine, and frame rates have never been a problem. Another is a HTPC, and it has never given me a problem. Third is my laptop which does everything, games, movies, web, and it has also never had a problem. The only machine I have ever had blue screens on is the gaming one, and those were ALL overclocking related.

    Frankly, I prefer vista EASILY as it is much easier to navigate around in, things are laid out better, it looks better, and anything can run it.
    YES - ANYTHING. I had a 4 year old sony, pentium 4 3.4 GHz, 2 GB ddr2-400 ram, geforce 6600 graphics, and it runs vista (32 bit since the P4) like a dream. It was JUST as fast as XP was on identical hardware. By the time SP1 was out, which was a while ago now, I have not had a single issue with drivers or software. So the only excuse to bitch about Vista at this point is to be a fanboy, and if thats all you are, shut up, we dont care.
  • 4
    antemon , April 21, 2009 4:38 AM
    revving up the mob, eh?

    whatever, so long as they do a good job of it and everything works out of the box with little to no hang-ups.
  • 3
    midnightgun , April 21, 2009 11:45 AM
    On that note though, i am very hopeful on Windows 7 and am hoping it might be worth buying upon release with a whole new system build.
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