Windows 7 RC Release Date...

Microsoft officially announced the release dates for the RC version of their latest edition of Windows, Windows 7. Windows 7 RC will be available for free download to MSDN and Technet subscribers from 30th April, while it will be available for download the the public from 5th of May...

The RC version, is the Release Candidate of the final product which will be launched somewhere in end-2009. The RC version will be the second and the last publicly available Edition of Windows 7(pre-release)

As a Beta Tester, I have found many significant improvements in Windows 7 over Vista...
The main being memory usage, while Vista refused to install on my system with only 1Gb of Ram, Windows 7 readily installed and is working without any problems ever since (of course, Aero is disabled :P)

Here is the official announcement from Microsoft:

There certainly has been a lot of discussion about Windows 7 in the last few weeks. A lot of folks want to know when they can get their hands on the official RC, when we are going to RTM, and what I had for breakfast. 

I’m pleased to share that the RC is on track for April 30th for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Broader, public availability will begin on May 5th.

On behalf of everyone here, I would to thank all of our beta testers for helping us get to this point. You guys have been busy. At the peak of the feedback cycle, we were receiving a “Send Feedback” report every 15 seconds for an entire week. Since then, the engineering team has been busy analyzing the feedback, fixing bugs, and working hard to improve the overall experience. Many of your suggestions helped us refine the new and improved taskbar, the behavior of Aero Peek, Touch, Windows Media Player, and much more. In case you have missed the previous E7 blog entry outlining some of these changes in detail, you can read about them here and here.

Be sure to check back with us next week… And by the way, I had eggs for breakfast :-)