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Microsoft to pull Windows 7 Release Candidate in August

rruwalton

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Microsoft has announced that the Release Candidate program for Windows 7 will cease in mid-August.

Once installed on a PC, the Release Candidate won't expire until 1 June 2010, although users will be hit with annoying-hourly restarts from 1 March in a none-too-subtle attempt to persuade people to pay for the full version, which will be released on 22 October this year.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/258226/microsoft-to-pull-windows-7-release-candidate-in-august.html

I'm using XP Pro and although I have put Windows 7 on a partition, I wont be buying it.

I never updated XP as past experience has shown my pc goes pair-shaped after an update.

Not sure how many people will go out and buy Windows 7.
 
To be honest I quite like it.

I used Vista once and immediately hated it, with all it's "xxx needs permission to do yyy" crap, not to mention the amount of "bloat" that came with it. While you still get the "permission" boxes in W7, there's not nearly so many, just about tolerable.

Then there's Media Player 12, which is outstanding in that it supports MPEG4 (XviD, DivX, H.264) out of the box, which means that now it will stream all those formats if you use your Xbox 360 as a media extender (which I do). The lack of MPEG4 support is something that all but crippled Vista's media centre for extender use.

The only thing I dont really like is the new task bar and start menu. They should at least give you the option of using the "classic" start menu but they dont, sadly.
 
Just to clarify the OP - Only the download/key distribution of Win7 RC1 will cease in August, the program itself will continue to run for just under one year before the limits kick in.

I'm like Agra, I quite liked Windows7 and look forward to the final release. I also found the new taskbar a bit frustrating at times, although I've semi-adapted to it now. I just hope they flesh out the small cosmetic issues in Win7 that popped up in the RC1 as I hate having a transparent topbar to a maximised window. I much rather it be a solid colour, as you could set in Vista - focuses your eyes better.
 
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I like W7 too. I didn't get Vista after M$ made a complete hash of the release. I know they fixed it pretty much with SP1, but after pre SP1 Vista refused to run a router setup CD on a friends laptop, and a few other problems, I vowed never to touch it again. Glad to see M$ has done a better job with W7 so far.
 
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