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Late on Monday night, the much anticipated Windows 7 release candidate was made available on Microsoft.com.  The RC wasn’t suppose to be publicly available until later on today (Tuesday).  The Microsoft faithful around the Internet were crawling the Microsoft domain waiting for the informational page to be activated early, sure enough it was!

The Windows 7 release candidate was available on MSDN and TechNet since last week, Microsoft was inundated with insane demand and their download service encountered many problems leaving users frustrated.  Hopefully Microsoft has the bugs figured out and they will be able to keep up with demand this time around. 

To download the Windows 7 RC, click on the hyperlinked text above.

Lifehacker has a great informational article on how to install Windows 7 once you download the ISO image.

If you have problems with the Java downloader from Microsoft, right click save-as the following direct links to the Windows 7 RC:

x86: [wb.dlservice.microsoft.com]

x64: [wb.dlservice.microsoft.com]

SEO is more a craze than ever.  Many web developers are getting paid nice dollars if they can find a way to get their clients page into the first few searches on Google consistenly.  There have been some recent developments in the browser industry which makes your Google rank and SEO even more important today than a year ago:

• IE8 now has address bar searches similar to Google Chrome, these searches query Google for results by default

IE8 will be the default browser for Windows 7.  Searching via the address bar will continue to grow consistently, especiallywhen Windows 7 rolls out.  Google will stand to see another major bump in traffic.  Don’t you want to be on the top now more than ever?

• Google as a search engine is still a warhorse that is unlikely to be going any where, anytime soon!

With Google getting companies like Microsoft to default users to their search engine results within their browsers which will be pre-installed on machines, your Google page rank just got that much more important.

Graphs provided by Net Applications ‘Market Share’