Windows 7 Release Candidate confirmed for May 5 release

Windows 7 Release Candidate confirmed for May 5 release

Sam Symons on 25 April 2009 - 04:45 · 37 comments & 14240 views

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Remember that Microsoft page that said that a Windows 7 RC would be public available on May the 5th? Turns out it was dead on, as the Redmond-based company have written a blog post confirming it.

For those of you who are MSDN and TechNet subscribers, you can look forward to an April 30 release, but as mentioned, us mere mortals are stuck waiting a few extra days for it. The blog post also has some rather cool facts: at certain points during testing, bug reports and feedback were coming in every 15 seconds for a week flat. It goes to show that beta testers really do make a difference. They also state, "Many of your suggestions helped us refine the new and improved taskbar, the behavior of Aero Peek, Touch, Windows Media Player, and much more."

It's good that we finally have an official release date; now all that's left is to play the waiting game.

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(3 replies) #1 AnthoWin on 25 Apr 2009 - 05:01

woohoo, i cant trust those torrent sites. I hope MS's servers dont get hampered on day one (offcourse they will, coz they wont anticipate the flux of interest on their operating system!

#1.1 +Techno_Funky on 25 Apr 2009 - 05:06

Exactly, hope the dont repeat the Public Beta problems.

#1.2 Richardarkless on 25 Apr 2009 - 10:48

Microsoft had this problem with the servers being hammered with the beta so they maybe learnt from their mistakes hopefully they also have torrent links as well

#1.3 jameswjrose on 25 Apr 2009 - 17:17

It would seem to me a good idea would be for MS to put up their own torrent of the OS. That way we would all share in the load and their servers wouldn't be hit so hard.

#2 Erikas on 25 Apr 2009 - 05:10

Much anticipated, can't wait. Although when downloaded and installed it will be a few hours of wow and awe so cool, then I get used to it and back to normal

Well at least for me. Using build 7000 on desktop and VISTA home premium on laptop. Both run very smooth with not problems but can't wait to upgrade and try some new features and look what has changed since 7000 (reading about changes is not quite the same as seeing and using first hand). Well done Microsoft.

#3 Antiprophet on 25 Apr 2009 - 05:12

erm, maybe im being stupid cause im 12 hours into a night shift here, but since when was May 5th just over an extra month after April 30th?
Good news though!

Last edited by Antiprophet on 25 Apr 2009 - 05:20

#4 qdave on 25 Apr 2009 - 05:24

^its a joke

(1 reply) #5 mocax on 25 Apr 2009 - 05:38

10 more days.....
i'll wait....

it'll take me 10 days to grab it off torrent anyway..... bad ISP...

#5.1 hardgiant on 25 Apr 2009 - 06:57

Who is your ISP?

#6 M_Lyons10 on 25 Apr 2009 - 06:08

How does April 30th to May 5th equal "...just over an extra month"?

Did I miss something?

(1 reply) #7 Litespeed on 25 Apr 2009 - 07:31

Yay, 5 days until April 30th..... awesome.

#7.1 DSLJay on 25 Apr 2009 - 13:50

I second that

. Also, 10 days until May 5th. Less then 2 weeks. Awesome.

(2 replies) #8 koinonia on 25 Apr 2009 - 07:33

Who really cares about this news anyway to be honest

LOL!

#8.1 ajua on 25 Apr 2009 - 07:48

To people who doesn't (or can't) have the leaked version already, for starters.

Oh, and are interested in trying it.

#8.2 yert* on 26 Apr 2009 - 00:50

hmm, maybe the millions of people anxiously awaiting Windows 7?

(2 replies) #9 Faisal Islam on 25 Apr 2009 - 07:52

Great..but why 5may? why not now???? are there any policy or reason inside??

#9.1 AnthoWin on 25 Apr 2009 - 08:38

Faisal Islam said,

Great..but why 5may? why not now???? are there any policy or reason inside??

Probably sorting out serial numbers and putting up extra servers en masse

#9.2 excalpius on 25 Apr 2009 - 21:33

Time for the technet people to have it first.

(1 reply) #10 +Tony. on 25 Apr 2009 - 10:02

People who think that the RC they are going to release is going to be different than the one already out are going to fall on their faces. The same happened with build 7000 and were waiting for the very last moment before realising that the build was going to be exactly the same.

#10.1 xendrome on 25 Apr 2009 - 15:25

Yea, I love the "You can't trust torrents" comments... since somehow people think that torrents and pirates have some magical way of modifying the MD5 strings on the ISOs to match exactly...

Oh well, there loss right?

#11 superkid on 25 Apr 2009 - 10:37

Still awaiting for rc to be dl'd from torrent, i can't wait to install it i heard its very good. I hope IE8 has been fixed up in it too, i find it crashes alot in the current 7077 im running.

#12 helios01 on 25 Apr 2009 - 10:49

Was kind of hoping it was later, having this up on the week of finals, temptation is too much, must play with new tech.

#13 neufuse on 25 Apr 2009 - 13:11

Beta testers will be getting it April 30th... *whistle* a little birdy told me also... so if your not technet or MSDN there you go

#14 Angel Blue01 on 25 Apr 2009 - 13:33

Woo hoo

(2 replies) #15 Oblid on 25 Apr 2009 - 13:49

But, the RC they are going to release is multilingual or English only
I from South America

#15.1 xendrome on 25 Apr 2009 - 15:23

I would expect it to be English only, maybe the 4 languages they usually do. But, it is pre-release, and you do speak some English obviously. So if you want to take part in using it, then you seem to be capable.

#15.2 +Techno_Funky on 25 Apr 2009 - 15:35

The Public Beta had "Hindi" as well ... so dont worry ...

#16 abtm on 25 Apr 2009 - 16:40

waiting game sucks lets play hungry hungry hippos.

#17 Goalie33 on 25 Apr 2009 - 20:49

Running RC release build 7100 now...it seems to fly over 7057 and I even did the upgrade not a fresh install.

#18 EddieZ on 25 Apr 2009 - 22:00

Does it have a deadline?

And I'm on MSDN :-)

(2 replies) #19 AminoSC on 25 Apr 2009 - 22:49

May 5TH is my BIRTHDAY!

#19.1 metro on 25 Apr 2009 - 23:48

Mine's the 6th

#19.2 roadwarrior on 26 Apr 2009 - 16:10

My wife's is the 7th and mine is the 11th. Happy birthday (soon) to all of us!

#20 Thirtythree on 26 Apr 2009 - 00:06

I really liked the Beta. I'm sure that this release will have ironed out most if not all bugs. I'll skip the RC and just wait for RTM. Really looking forward to Windows 7!

#21 3dfxman on 26 Apr 2009 - 00:29

already running 7100 myself and im loving it

#22 +Chicane-UK on 26 Apr 2009 - 19:25

Can't wait for the 30th then.. MSDN account at work! Can't wait to try 7100!

#23 Alley Cat on 27 Apr 2009 - 03:24

Watch evil MS, screw up and some people will have to wait a week or more to get windows 7

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