Windows 7 RC is Out!

For those of you who haven’t heard yet, the Windows 7 Release Candidate went public today.  This download will be made available at least until June 2009.  The 32 and 64 bit versions are available in five languages: English, German, Japanese, French and Spanish.

You can pick the version you’d like & download it from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ie/evalcenter/dd353271(en-us).aspx.

Developers, the Windows 7 RC SDK is also available, and you can get that here: Windows 7 RC SDK.

I have been running Windows 7 since January on my machines at home and at work, and I’ve been really pleased with the operating system overall.  I especially love that it works so great on my 1GB Samsung NC-10 Netbook.

There is a lot of excellent information out there right now on Windows 7.  Here are some that I recommend:

Engineering 7 blog – Engineering 7 talks about the ins and outs of Windows 7, how it was designed & built, and useful features and information.  For example, today’s post was on Support and Q&A for Solid State Drives.

Windows 7 for Developers blog -  For developers wanting to build applications for Windows 7, ensure compatibility, or understand the APIs and capabilities of the platform, this is your home.

Talking about Windows – Talking about Windows is new and has videos and conversations for IT Pros with the Windows 7 engineering team.  It provides a platform for people to ask questions and get answers regarding Win7.

The Windows Team Blog – This is an aggregation of a variety of blogs around Windows, some of which I mentioned above.  It also includes information for businesses, information on Windows Live, and more.

Cross posted from Martha's Blog.