I’m really excited about the upcoming Windows 7 RC availability (who isn’t?). As the Windows 7 Team blog announced on Friday, it should be appearing on MSDN on 30 April, with the public release to follow on 5 May. I’ll be downloading it straight away, as will millions of others I’m sure. What’ll...

Good to see some credible rumours about Windows 7 being published. May 5 seems to be the day when Windows 7 RC goes public (and hopefully earlier for MSDN and TechNet subscribers). A week later on May 11 Windows Mobile 6.5 might be released (or perhaps not). But before those releases we’ll have Office...

Time to check in on the daily Windows 7 RC rumours and yet again we’re in for a treat. If much of the Twitter buzz is true then the RC will be released on April 10. What a wonderful way to spend the long weekend (Australia has a 4 day weekend starting Friday), reformatting my machine and loading on...

Its been a good week for rumours with the Google-Twitter discussion generating a lot of interest on the interwebs. So, it  must be time to re-stoke some other rumours – how about the Windows 7 release date rumours again. This time the suggestion is for a September RTM according to today’s Windows...

Perception is a funny thing. I’ve sometimes said that ‘perception is reality’ – meaning that it doesn’t matter what the reality is, all that matters is what people think the reality is. Take web browsing speed for example. Someone applies a patch to IE8 that they are informed will speed it...

Ars Technica reported on the ‘accidental’ TechNet page detailing the Windows 7 RC release coming. The page (since taken down) details how the Release Candidate will be available in May 2009 (and not expire until June 2010). This adds further weight to a July release of Windows 7, noted back in February...