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Windows 7 Release Candidate Available to Select Partners

By Doug Holland (Intel) (245 posts) on April 18, 2009 at 9:00 pm

Microsoft's Partner Program Website today announced the availability of the Windows 7 Release Candidate. According to the announcement the public availability of the Windows 7 Release Candidate will be May 5th 2009 although MSDN and TechNet Subscribers are able to download the build now. After checking both the MSDN and TechNet subscriber downloads areas it appears that the builds are yet to be uploaded.

With the Microsoft TechEd 2009 conference in Los Angeles, CA next month I had personally expected the Windows 7 Release Candidate to be announced during the keynote address.

Once the Windows 7 Release Candidate build is available I'll download the build and provide some insight into what the build. It will be interesting to see what, if any, changes are included within the build as there has been some speculation on the blogosphere the RC or RTM builds may contain a new theme.

Rafael Rivera, of Within Windows, commented on my previous post and he believes we may indeed see a new theme within the RC or RTM builds to help Microsoft further differentiate the Windows 7 release from Windows Vista.

Categories: Parallel Programming, Software Engineering

Comments (6)

April 19, 2009 2:45 PM PDT Noob

You don't even give credit to those who discovered this. Loser.

April 19, 2009 2:58 PM PDT Doug Holland (Intel) Total Points: 13,765 Status Points: 13,765 Black Belt

Given the fact this news was all over the blogosphere there really wasn't a single person to credit aside from the Partner Program Website itself. I usually make every effort to credit someone where credit is due, as in the above post where I refer to Rafael Rivera of the awesome Within Windows blog. Regards, Doug

April 20, 2009 7:28 AM PDT javierandrescaceres Total Points: 4,860 Status Points: 4,360 Brown Belt

Hello Doug, I'm member of the manageability community (http://software.intel.com/en-us/manageability/). I'm the lead of a developer community here in Bogota (Colombia) and We are presenting some sessions on software testing. We would be glad if you can contribute to our community with an on-line session about test patterns (a 40 minutes presentation) on next April 28. Thank you in advance for your time and feel free to contact me: javierandrescaceres at gmail dot com,

April 20, 2009 2:25 PM PDT Kedar

Hi Doug, I am missing your email address so posting a comment here. We meet at Reno Software group last time you were there. I know that you are suppose to be in Reno for another session in May. Would like to get you present at my company too. But depending on your available time we can discuss if telecom or something else is possible. Sincerely, Kedar

April 21, 2009 5:12 AM PDT pramodblackbird Total Points: 470 Status Points: 420 Green Belt

Seriously, the UI has been reinforced in Windows 7 RC build,..N stabler than beta...

April 21, 2009 6:18 AM PDT dono

nice info :D

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