Windows 7 Release Candidate Announcement

Windows 7 Release Candidate Announcement

Thank you very much for your help in testing the Windows 7 Beta. Your feedback is invaluable in helping make Windows 7 a high quality operating system. With your help, we have reached the next major milestone on the journey to Windows 7: the Release Candidate (RC).

- On April 30th, the RC became available to MSDN subscribers and TechNet Plus subscribers.
- On Tuesday, May 5 (PST), the RC will be available to everyone via our Customer Preview Program. As with the Beta, the Windows 7 RC Customer Preview Program is a broad public program that offers the RC free to anyone who wants to download it. It will be available at least through June 30, 2009, with no limits on the number of downloads or product keys available.



So you don’t need rush to make sure you get your copy. When you’re ready to download the RC, it’ll be waiting for you.

Thoughts on Windows 7

Well right from the start you can tell that its pretty much vista with a face lift. The taskbar seems to be bigger with larger icons. Start bar was pretty much the same as far as I could see. Some of the desktop features were pretty neat. I like the option to change desktop background after a certain interval. The backgrounds included are High Res and looked really good. Seems they changed the sticky notes or maybe I just never used them in vista. Besides the look I didn't find too many changes as of yet. Only tested for about a hour or so.

Windows 7 Screen Shots

Just Loaded Windows 7 Beta

Well just got a copy of the new Windows 7 beta and figured I'd snap a few shots of it. Loaded it with Virtual PC and must say its actually running pretty good on it. Well The more neat things I find out the more I'll post.