Windows 7: Windows 7 RC download page goes up early, coming in May

It looks like someone flipped the switch a little early. The Windows 7 Release Candidate download page on TechNet has made a premature appearance, much like the beta download page did before the beta was released to the public. The public RC will apparently be coming in May 2009, and not in April as previously rumored. The RC testing program will be available at least through June 2009, and the actual build will expire June 1, 2010. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions will be available in English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish. This is different from the beta, which was available in English (32-bit and 64-bit), German (32-bit and 64-bit), Japanese (32-bit and 64-bit), Arabic (32-bit and 64-bit), and Hindi (32-bit). A quick glance at the hardware requirements shows no changes between Beta and RC requirements. I expect the download page to be pulled soon, so I've included the text for the page below:

Full Story: Windows 7 RC download page goes up early, coming in May - Ars Technica

Thanks Emil,

On the ball as usual

Thanks Emil that is pretty interesting as it happened the same way before

Thanks for the new info. This was interesting

Thanks Slimy, very good news, at least we know it will go public and another interesting thing is that we can upgrade to the Final release build and this version will expire on June the 1st 2010.

release the beast release the beast!!!! we want it, and we want it nowwwwwwwww,

haha,

Page has been removed, back to the old one again.

so was the download up or was that just the page for the download?

it was just a page, downloads where not active.

Just the page.