Windows 7 RC Download Page Points To May Release

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."

Comments

Who cares

[lwriemen]

Windows is a dead technology, that is only being sustained due to Microsoft's anti-competitive monopoly, which has yet to be properly remedied.

Re:Who cares

[Anonymous Coward]

If by dead you mean the undisputed market leader, preferred by a majority of even those users who have tried other OS, and the only viable choice for non-server business needs, then ya sure you betcha ya, its dead!

Then again this is slashdot, where truth never gets in the way of advocacy.

Wait... WHAT ?

[psergiu]

> ... will be available in English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish.

Wait... WHAT ?

Different install media for different languages ?

The '90s called and they want their MacOS 7 style installs back.
The Mac OS X installer is multi-language. All the linux distros have multi-language installers. I was expecting MUCH more from Windows 7.