On May 5th, general users will have access to Windows 7 for one full year. It is already available for download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. This is only the Release Candidate version and will expire on June 1, 2010. The Release Candidate is basically the near finished product and the final stage in testing.
Supposedly it will have all the features of the final version. We still don’t know when the final version will be released but according to rumors it’ll be late 2009 or early 2010. Windows 7 features a bunch of new features including a new taskbar, libraries, jump lists, and more. Windows 7 will also come packaged with the newest Internet Explorer (IE8).
One of the biggest improvements is the performance. It will no longer take 5-10 minutes to boot your system. There’s also the Windows XP mode, which lets you run native XP programs on your machine.
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Yeah, PCs don’t take 5-10 minutes to boot up… I hope this was just an exaggeration and you meant “30-40 seconds”… Otherwise you need to fix your sh!t.