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Microsoft Leaks Windows 7 RC Date — Before May 5

Posted by timothy on from the don't-tell-anybody-it's-a-secret dept.

CWmike writes "Microsoft will deliver a release candidate of Windows 7 in about two weeks, the company's Web site revealed Saturday. According to a page posted on Microsoft's partner program site, Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) may be available to paying subscribers to Microsoft's developer and IT services before May 5. Partners will be allowed to download the release candidate on that date, the first Tuesday of the month. 'Partners: If you have a subscription to MSDN or TechNet, you can download Windows 7 RC now,' the page read Saturday afternoon. 'Otherwise, you can download Windows 7 RC starting May 5, 2009.' The link to the download, however, shunted users to the TechNet download page, which did not list Windows 7 RC as one of the available files. This is the second time in just over three weeks that Microsoft's Web site has leaked information about Windows 7 RC. Accidental, or buzz-builder?"

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  1. Actually we did explain it. by bhpaddock · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx

    XP hid the dialog before the copy was really finished. Vista changed this so you wouldn't pull out a USB key before the operation had finished.

    Vista RTM had some copy performance issues but SP1 fixed those, and during Win7 there was a significant focus on improving copy / move / delete performance.

  2. Download by dark42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you have a subscription to MSDN or TechNet, you can download Windows 7 RC now

    If you have a "ThePirateBay" subscription, you can download Windows 7 RC now.

  3. Wrong again. by bhpaddock · · Score: 5, Informative

    Vista never had any DRM of any kind built-in, other than the DRM support in WMP that was in XP.

    Certainly nothing at all that affects copy operations in the shell. That notion is absurd (I'm a shell developer, I would know).

    It's just a ridiculous myth that gets repeated on Slashdot and nowhere else.