Microsoft Leaks Windows 7 RC Date — Before May 5

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 18, 2009 @11:58AM 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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buzz builder? by Threni · 2009-04-18 12:02 · 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.