Windows 7 RC1 Released to MSDN and TechNet

      by Wyatt Walter

Release Candidate 1 of Windows 7 was released yesterday to MSDN and TechNet subscribers with a generally available release date of May 5. The biggest new feature: an “XP compatibility mode” that’s really a Windows XP virtual machine. The compatibility mode is supposed to grease the skids for people upgrading from XP to allow applications that are only available for Windows XP to be able to be run on Windows 7. One of the biggest things that consumers and businesses have complained about and cited as reasons for not upgrading to Vista was that hardware and software needed to be changed (which was true in some cases). Microsoft is working hard to minimize the number of excuses for consumers not to upgrade so it can stop supporting an antiquated Windows XP.

For those of you who are worried, don’t. Windows 7 is now the “highest quality Release Candidate in the history of Windows”, straight from Bill Veghte of Microsoft himself. Seriously this time. It is. Other Windows releases have claimed to be best, but this one really is the best. Okay, joking aside, Microsoft seems to have learned from lessons from Vista. They are including users and hardware manufacturers much more with the release of 7 than with the release of Vista.

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