Windows 7 Release Candidate Arrives Early!

5 May

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]