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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. buzz builder? by Threni · · Score: 1, Troll

    Dunno what that is, but I'm not sure there's much point in frustrating potential downloaders. Microsoft hasn't had much success with any OSes released since 2002 so it's probably not wise to dick people around too much. I'm posting this from Ubuntu because Microsoft made it impossible for me to copy files around between USB keys, dvds and hard disks with anything like the speed of XP for reasons they've never explained.

    1. Re:buzz builder? by Voyager529 · · Score: 0, Troll

      While I would agree that overwriting GRUB/LiLo/Your Bootloader Here is annoying, the average user is orders of magnitude more likely to have an issue with a corrupted, windows-written bootloader than a conflict with an intentionally installed one. Even at that, Windows would have to be added to the list. To my knowledge, that would have to be done manually by the user.

  2. Re:Windows 7 synopsis by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    windows 7 ADDs new features.

    But I don't want it to add features, I want it to run programs, fast and efficiently, and stay the fuck out of my way, and not worry about whether I've got licenses to the music on my computer, especially since most of that music I composed and recorded myself.

    Why is it so hard to get an operating system to use for my digital audio workstation that I can use the way I want, on the hardware I want?

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    You are welcome on my lawn.
  3. Re:Windows Se7en... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 0, Troll
    Whoops...

    Ah, from what I heard, it wasn't leaked anyway. It was squirted.

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    "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
  4. Re:Still incorrect. by Helldesk+Hound · · Score: 0, Troll

    > It is also completely inactive and irrelevant until
    > somebody's code calls the necessary APIs.

    That is so not true!

    The reason why MS Windows Vista is so very slow at copying documents is because it is checking multiple times a second to see if a user is attempting to copying, or an application is otherwise attempting to access, any high definition media, and if it is it will either act to prevent it, or will only permit that access by means of specifically encrypted data paths.

    MS windows Vista is essentially paranoid re preventing users from copying HD material. This is one of the reasons why the OS still uses a considerable amount of CPU time even when it is ostensibly idle.

    DRM is fundamentally built into MS Windows Vista in such a way that the performance of the OS has suffered as a result.