Windows 7 Free for a year.

Yes ,Just imagine ,how good this Operating system is going to be ,by the time they release the main baby.

Are they shooting for release this year or next?

June next year ,so they say.

jfar said:

June next year ,so they say.

Oh, thank you. I thought they were looking at Holiday '09 for release.

they even said in their statement that this may even be the final version used for RTM.

Win7User512 said:

Are they shooting for release this year or next?

jfar said:

June next year ,so they say.

The lengthy RC availability means that people will be able to try out a full version of Windows 7 well beyond its production version release date, but Microsoft's launch has not been delayed, insists Painell.
"Our official line is that [the production version] will be available no later than January 2010 and we will stick to that, but people will still be able to use the release candidate for nothing until June 2010."

I expect Win7 to go Gold September or earlier, to hit the holiday shopping season for PCs.

Just wanted to start everybody saying, this date and that date ,I know it will be a lot earlier than that

Free til June 2010 makes one wonder what goodies will be in the RTM that aren't in the RC that would make us want to spend our money to switch. Perhaps the rumors of secret features thus far not announced might hold some truth.

Hi all
can someone post any differences between "Official RC" and the DECENT Torrent one's we D/L'ed last week. Such as Hashes, watermarks etc etc.

Cheers
jimbo