Windows 7 RC Date Spied for May Release
Whoops, it seems that someone at Microsoft flipped the Windows 7 Release Candidate switch a little too early and gave us pretty good indication of when the RC will hit testers.
Posted inexplicably on TechNet was the download page for Windows 7 Release Candidate, which carried with it a “Published: May 2009” note. Given that it’s still March, it’s a clear sign that Microsoft’s preparing itself for a May launch of RC1.
The notes on the mistakenly posted site read as if many of the details surrounding the RC have already been set in stone. For example, the page already gives the dates of the RC’s eligibility.
“The RC release will be available at least through June 2009 and we're not limiting the number of product keys, so you have plenty of time.”
“Watch the calendar. Windows 7 RC will expire on June 1, 2010. So if you install the RC release you'll either need to upgrade to the final version of Windows 7 before that date, or install a prior version of Windows.”
Check out Ars Technica for a screenshot of the now-taken down page.
For those of you running one of the current beta versions, it’ll be a no brainer to upgrade to the RC when it’s out. But are any of you holding out for the RC before checking out what all the fuss is about?
Old System:
Athlon XP 3000+
Asus A7V8X-X
2GB Ram
Nvidia 7600GS (AGP)
The only problem I had was when installing programs it took a while to start the setup.
But anways, quick, speedy, with decent driver support atm, along with the new options to remove windows 'features'. I'd say I'll stick with RC1 until the full release shows up on MSDN servers, at which point I'll promptly upgrade to.
Same here, Win 7 64 bit, build 7000, I can confirm all you said ...
I'm in the same boat. Have heard nothing but praise for W7, can't wait to try out the RC.
I'm running Win7 on a very similar system and I agree completely
so it's still a good 2 months; time enough to fix the last issues and bugs.
I'm not confident that Windows 7 will be any improvement over XP.
The past has proven it never has.
Win 3x was faster and better then win9x. Then Win Me/2000, only to be replaced by win XP, and Vista.
Always heavier, always bigger footprint, and slower.
Many of the functions aren't even necessary, and could easily be implied in WinXp, or win98.
I'd love to see a company taking in the MS challenge to make operating systems compatible with XP and Vista and Win7, only lighter and cheaper.
Lots of people would go over to the other operating system.
I was trying to get Evenbalance support to listen to me on a fix that would work! But they basically said "fuck off I don't care"
When I got my hands on the Vista RC, I swaped everything I had to it and only used XP for compatibility purposes. I was desparate to rid myself of XP after having the same thing for so many years.
I might do the same complete switch over to the Win7 RC when it comes out, but I'll be testing it first. I'm definately going to miss some of the stuff that was changed from Vista though (the removal of icons from Explorer's task pane).
i tried out win7 on my satellite r10 tablet, 1gb ram/2ghz pentium m/80gbs, it ran great for as old as the system is (2005) but i was limited to some drivers that haven't been yet released... wifi didn't work. i've heard nothing BUT good things to come from this build. It is the newborn of a better windows era. vista was rebuilt HOW MANY TIMES??? HAHa... great comments everyone.
I just installed win7 and everything seems to run fine except that I cant get any chipset/video drivers working and therefore the tablet wont go into portrait mode