Welcome to Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) testing. We’re on our way to Windows 7, and the RC is a great opportunity for IT professionals like you to take Windows 7 and begin testing it in your real ...

As Microsoft promised, on Tuesday, the Windows 7 Release Candidate was made available to the public. It had previously been available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Here are the details from ...

The Windows 7 Release Candidate will have "quite a few changes" that reflect feedback Microsoft received during the beta, Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live ...

With Microsoft’s release of Windows 7 RC to the MSDN and TechNet community, lots of folks have been busy downloading, burning, and installing. Immediately after coming home from the hospital yesterday ...

The anticipated release candidate (RC) for Windows 7 is now available, Microsoft announced. Mike Nash, corporate vice president, Windows product management group at Microsoft, said Thursday the RC for ...

If you aren't an MSDN or TechNet subscriber, but still want to get your hands on the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), Tuesday May 5 is the day downloads begin. But there's no need to rush. (And doing ...

Microsoft’s limited distribution of the Windows 7 release candidate (RC) on April 30 — followed by its more widespread release a week later — has triggered a firestorm of opinions, comments, critiques ...

As expected, the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) is now available to the public for download. The beta keys Microsoft gave out during the public beta will work just fine with this build. The ...

The Windows 7 Release Candidate leaked earlier today contains a lot of minor tweaks to previous beta versions of the new operating system, but Microsoft says that it also has a couple of new features: ...

Microsoft will deliver a release candidate of Windows 7 in little more than two weeks, the company’s Web site revealed Saturday. According to a page posted on Microsoft’s partner program site, Windows ...

Last year’s free preview of Windows 7 will start nagging users to pay for the operating system in two weeks, and begin automatically shutting down PCs in one month, Microsoft reminded customers today.

Microsoft is disabling downloads for Windows 7 RC on Aug. 20; the release candidate can be used until the software expires on June 1 Those wanting to try out Microsoft’s next OS before its official ...