Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) available to download

[Tony1044]

Let this one slip past me so apologies if it's old'ish news, but you can download the release candidate of Windows 7 here Windows 7 Release Candidate Customer Preview Program

This will, in all likelihood, be the final release prior to it going RTM (release to manufacturing - the point at which the big system builders get it to start preloading it onto their machines to sell).

As with beta build 7000 (this is officially 7100) it feels stable, responsive and is still generally a lot less chatty than Vista.

Remember if you do decide to download it though that it is beta software and may have bugs. On top of that it'll eventually time out and stop working - this is just Microsoft's way of getting you to buy the eventual release and not run the beta forever for free

[Tony1044]

Windows 7 is going RTM (Release to Manufacturing - i.e. the big boys like Dell and HP) shortly and is now scheduled for general release on October 22.

Personally I still think it's the best OS they've produced in years.