Windows 7 Release Candidate - download it NOW!

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Henry Winchester - 16 July 2009 - 12:31pm

The Format crew is loving the free release of Microsoft's Windows 7, but there's a slight air of panic in the office. You see, we're nearing the time where we might actually have to pay for it. To make matters worse, Microsoft has announced that you won't be able to download the free release candidate after August 20th 2009. We're more worried about this than swine flu or the new Harry Potter film.

PC Format's advice in this time of crisis is to head to the Windows 7 site and download furiously. Product keys will still be available after August 20th, and Dave discovered that you can generate more by hitting the "Back" button on the product key page, which is handy if you want to install it on more than one PC. The Release Candidate expires on June 1st 2010, but by then we'll all be living on the moon anyway.

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Alfred Hambabi (not verified)
20 July 2009 - 9:00pm

Cool

Anonymous
19 October 2009 - 7:16am

I don't know, I'm going to

I don't know, I'm going to wait awhile until they get the bugs out before I screw my computer up like I did when Vista first game out with bugs.

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