{"id":219,"date":"2009-04-04T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2009-04-04T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T12:50:00","slug":"microsoft-accidentally-confirms-windows-7-rc-coming-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/04\/microsoft-accidentally-confirms-windows-7-rc-coming-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft accidentally confirms Windows 7 RC coming in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"dnn_ctr583_ContentPane\" class=\"DNNAligncenter\"><span id=\"spBody\" class=\"Forum_Normal\"><\/p>\n<p><span>Microsoft posted prematurely a download page for the <span class=\"IL_SPAN\"><input name=\"IL_MARKER\" type=\"hidden\">Windows 7<\/span> Release Candidate and \u2014 gasp! \u2014 one with a date of May 2009 attached to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Windows team has been doing its best not to talk specific dates in advance of delivering any of its milestone builds. (No published dates means no one can ever say you\u2019re late, right?)<\/p>\n<p>Previous reports had pegged <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/microsoft\/news\/2009\/03\/windows-7-rc-download-page-goes-up-early-coming-in-may.ars\">Microsoft\u2019s one and only RC as arriving in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ArsTechnica has a <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/microsoft\/news\/2009\/03\/windows-7-rc-download-page-goes-up-early-coming-in-may.ars\">screen shot of the Win 7 RC download page<\/a><span>. As Ars notes, the RC download period is set to last through June 2009 and the RC set to expire in June 2010. Ars also grabbed a shot of the expected hardware requirements for the <span class=\"IL_SPAN\"><input name=\"IL_MARKER\" type=\"hidden\">Windows 7<\/span> RC:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Internet access (to download <span class=\"IL_SPAN\"><input name=\"IL_MARKER\" type=\"hidden\">Windows 7<\/span> RC and get updates)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>A PC with these minimum recommended specifications:\n<ul>\n<li>1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor or higher<\/li>\n<li>1 GB of system memory or more<\/li>\n<li>16 GB of available disk space<\/li>\n<li>Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)<\/li>\n<li>DVD-R\/W Drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m still betting the Softies are going to RTM in Q3 of this year, whether the RC is slightly later than expected or not. We\u2019ll see\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=2369\">blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft posted prematurely a download page for the Windows 7 Release Candidate and \u2014 gasp! \u2014 one with a date of May 2009 attached to it. The Windows team has been doing its best not to talk specific dates in advance of delivering any of its milestone builds. (No published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}