{"id":8098,"date":"2009-04-28T17:36:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/whats-in-the-windows-7-release-candidate\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:23:28","slug":"whats-in-the-windows-7-release-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whats-in-the-windows-7-release-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in the Windows 7 Release Candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Windows 7 team made it official<\/a> a couple of days ago: the first Release Candidate<\/strong> of Windows 7 will be available for downloading and testing on May 5th. That’s only a few days away, so it’s time to take a deeper look and see what this RC may include and if there are any changes comparing to the previous Beta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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According to the developers working on Windows 7, the beta period and all the testers involved in it have been a great help for fixing bugs and improving the overall performance in Microsoft’s new operating system. At some point during this period, they were receiving a new feedback report every 15 seconds! All these suggestions have contributed to tweak and fine tune the Windows 7 taskbar and desktop<\/strong>, the Aero Peek<\/strong> function and the new version of Windows Media Player, among others. You can read more about all these changes in these<\/a> two posts<\/a> published on the Engineering Windows 7 blog.<\/p>\n

Another interesting feature in Windows 7 RC we heard about is the so called Windows XP mode<\/strong>. In Paul Thurrott<\/a>‘s<\/a> words, this Windows XP mode is a virtualized version of Windows XP SP3 that will run inside Microsoft’s Virtual PC framework and which will allow Windows 7 users to keep on using XP-only apps. This functionality won’t be built in the Windows 7 Release Candidate, but rather be offered as a separate download for RC users and eventually, Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate users. The idea sounds fine to me, but I’d need to see how smoothly this virtual XP can run inside another operating system.<\/p>\n

Now, what about expiration dates? The Beta version was available for download for a whole month, which makes me think that this RC is likely to be available until June 2009 and will last for a few months. Rumor has it that the final version of Windows 7 will be released in October<\/a>. In any case don’t wait until the last day and be sure to get your copy on May 5th. We are looking forward to hearing your impressions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Windows 7 team made it official a couple of days ago: the first Release Candidate of Windows 7 will be available for downloading and testing on May 5th. That’s only a few days away, so it’s time to take a deeper look and see what this RC may include and if there are any … Continue reading “What’s in the Windows 7 Release Candidate?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2569],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-8098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t