Microsoft Leaks Windows 7 RC Date — Before May 5 321
CWmike writes "Microsoft will deliver a release candidate of Windows 7 in about two weeks, the company's Web site revealed Saturday. According to a page posted on Microsoft's partner program site, Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) may be available to paying subscribers to Microsoft's developer and IT services before May 5. Partners will be allowed to download the release candidate on that date, the first Tuesday of the month. 'Partners: If you have a subscription to MSDN or TechNet, you can download Windows 7 RC now,' the page read Saturday afternoon. 'Otherwise, you can download Windows 7 RC starting May 5, 2009.' The link to the download, however, shunted users to the TechNet download page, which did not list Windows 7 RC as one of the available files. This is the second time in just over three weeks that Microsoft's Web site has leaked information about Windows 7 RC. Accidental, or buzz-builder?"
Windows Se7en... (Score:3, Funny)
Lust.
Gluttony.
Greed.
Sloth.
Wrath.
Envy.
Pride.
Developers.
Developers.
Developers.
Developers.
Developers.
Developers.
Developers.
Developers.
Re:buzz builder? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, it takes time to analyze the content you are copying and report it to the RIAA.
Re:buzz builder? (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft hasn't had much success with any OSes released since 2002 so it's probably not wise to dick people around too much.
But this time it's going to be perfect. They promised!
Windows $NEXT_VERSION will floor all comers (Score:4, Funny)
Guest post by Mary-Jo Enderle
I have seen the future: Windows $NEXT_VERSION Milestone $MOCKUP [today.com].
I tried it on a low-end laptop with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.
WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like "FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! -- the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved $HATED user interface from Office $HATED_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!
The controversial Digital Rights Management system in Vista has been worked over, with user-downloadable "tilt bits," which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray(tm) of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.
A public beta should be released by the end of this year. There's just no way that Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on Vista release day -- the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets -- in the shade.
I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.
Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.
Re:Windows Se7en... (Score:4, Funny)
And in typical Microsoft fashion, you've gone and bloated the number seven to be eight "Developers.".
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Uhhh... yeah... Redmond the only place that offers its paying premium customers early access to its products and services before the general public.
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Watch it buster. You wanna be careful who you set off around here. I suppose you think you're making a point with that remark just because it's true.
Warms my heart (Score:5, Funny)
Glad to see you're joining the "I'm never installing Windows again" club.
Re:buzz builder? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Just edit your post.
Now where are those sarcsm tags...
Re:Windows Se7en... (Score:2, Funny)
Damn it! Where's my chair?
Re:buzz builder? (Score:3, Funny)
Mod +1 Inciteful.
Re:buzz builder? (Score:5, Funny)
What's insightful about this? If I make stuff up that I can't prove, does that make me insightful?
New here, eh?
Re:Windows Se7en... (Score:2, Funny)
It would be better than if Capcom made Windows. I can imagine it now:
Capcom Windows Super Alpha Hyper Ultra Turbo Edition VII
Re:buzz builder? (Score:2, Funny)
"[ ] Don't install bootloader (WARNING: say yes only if you know why!)" There. Was it so difficult?
Yes.