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Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Available

The final development stage has been reached with Internet Explorer 9 and earlier today Microsoft announced the availability of the IE9 Release Candidate for immediate download.

I now have it running on our systems here and it is quite stable compared to the beta which gave us some troubles.  I must say . . .

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Windows 7 Release Candidate Public Downloads Are Available

Microsoft has jumped ahead of everyone and made the Windows 7 RC available early.  Original reports over the last week indicated the download would be online by 5PM PDT however, it appears they surprised everyone and put it online at the beginning of the 5th of May instead of the end of the . . .

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Windows 7 Free for a Year?

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That is what has been blazed across the Internet and through social media sites like Twitter and Friendfeed over the last few days.

In fact – my first response was to reply that everyone had it wrong – in fact it took me two 140 characters tweets to say it:

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Windows 7 Release Candidate Public Availability Info

I just received a newsletter from TechNet because I downloaded the Windows 7 Beta 1 public release earlier this year when it became available.

It has an interesting note about the public release of the Windows 7 Release Candidate and how long it will be up for download:

On Tuesday, May 5 (PST), . . .

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Windows 7 Release Candidate is Available – Sort of!

Twitter and the blogosphere (is that a word?) are both abuzz today about the release of the Windows 7 Release Candidate.  A Release Candidate, or RC for short, is a feature complete version of a software program – in this case Windows.

As of today – this last day in April – it . . .

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Upgrading to the Windows 7 Release Candidate

Today over at the Engineering Windows 7 blog there is a new post that discusses Delivering a quality upgrade experience.

Now like most posts at the e7 blog this one is quite lengthy but there are some real gems in it and some gouge that everyone who is testing/running Windows 7 . . .

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