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Windows 7 RC Download Page Points To May Release

Posted by timothy on from the by-dribs-and-drabs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Someone over at Redmond flipped the wrong switch, it would seem. Ars Technica spotted that the Windows 7 download page on TechNet had switched to say Release Candidate instead of Beta. It's now back to Beta, but not before Ars got all the details off the page: 'The public RC will apparently be coming in May 2009, and not in April as previously rumored. The RC testing program will be available at least through June 2009, and the actual build will expire June 1, 2010. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions will be available in English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish.' A screenshot and all the text on the RC download page, which was set to be published 'May 2009' is saved over at Ars."

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  1. Re:I for one am excited about this. by AlterRNow · · Score: 5, Funny

    [quote]Windows 7 will have the advantage of supporting countless items of consumer hardware, as well as the tremendous decades-long back-catalog of games and productivity software.[/quote]
    Don't forget the countless items of hardware, games, and software that won't work :)

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  2. Re:Mod me down if you must but... by Richy_T · · Score: 2, Funny

    everything that worked on Vista should work just fine on 7.

    Now, there's damning with faint praise if I've ever seen it.

  3. Re:Leaked? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    they accidentally the whole beta!

  4. Re:32 bit AND 64 bit by marcello_dl · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Some people are so overzealous in their damnation of anything MS...

    Zeal = avoiding a convicted monopolist's product for fears that it will pull similar stunts at your expense in the future...

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