Hmmm..... there seems to be a post missing here when he realized that he was looking at 2 different screens with about information in them, here are the 2, the one with the date you get from going to start and typing winver and the other is from the about in the welcome screen.
There are plenty out there available from different torrent sites. No I will not post where I got mine, but I am sure it's not any different than 80% of the others people are using.
Mine says good through March -1st -2010
I know of a couple that do not run out at all
RC will be released the same way beta was through official channels.
In short you are gonna have to get your wallet out at some point unless you enter the darkside....
Do you by any chance have at least the xp key though? That was used with the xp install before you installed 7? If so just download an xp disk and use your own key.
From 7057 the expiration date is 2010.
i have windows home basic activated on my computer and i have windows 7 ultimate 64 bit on dual boot. I think i will wait for August 1 to upgrade my Vista home basic to windows 7 ultimate 64 bit, the windows vista basic is really a miss match for my computer, which has Pentium core 2 quad 2.33 GHz (Q8500) processor and 8 GB DDR2 800 MHz Transcend RAM mounted. I realy love the windows 7 task bar and the aeo features. I realy dont care if my hardware is 64 bit cause windows 7 is running perfectly, i have got all the required drivers from automatic update
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I bet you wish it was true though Mr Grim 
