Changes from Beta to RC ..Windows 7

Due to intake of massive amounts of alcohol in the weekend + exams in the weekdays I found myself unable to write anything. But today I finally got some spare time and tried to catch up with what's been going on.

I came across some pages detailing changes that have occurred between the beta release ..and the RC release of Windows 7. The pages are as old as March but I only found them today. There;s no use in rewriting or even copy pasting them here, so I'll just give you the links: link 1 and of course link 2.

As you know the RC was released a few days ago and you can download it for free from Microsoft. The beta version expires on 1st of July 2009 , and the RC expires on March 1st 2010 so the final release will most likely be Q2 of 2010..or at least I hope ..I don't believe MS will do a RC2 thing because they got it quite right the first time.

Windows 7 RC

Besides buying laptops, installing Windows and remaking the blog template there hasn't been too much going on. But the highlights are that we finally have a date for Windows Seven Release Candidate 1 and that is: 30th April for MSDN and TechNet  and May 5th for everybody else.

For all you haters, ignorants or just unsure and concerned people out there that believe Win 7 will be crap and you're still in love with your XP and your apps the people at MS actually did something useful :Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC. 

It's a mod for win seven that will allow you to install XP apps via Virtual PC and then run them in Seven. Check the link for more info.

Oh and on the lighter side of things the Yahoo Mess team did a little tinkering around and now you profile can show your updates from multiple social sites such as Last.fm and YouTube and Tweeter directly in YMess. Check out this post for more info.