Windows 7 Release Candidate Available May 5th

The Windows 7 Release Candidate is available for download by MSDN or TechNet members now and will be available for others to download on May 5th, according to the Microsoft Partner Site.

We are pleased to announce that Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is available. Windows 7 RC is the prerelease version of Windows 7. Since this is not the final release, your PC will gather and send information to Microsoft engineers to help them check the fixes and changes made based on testing of Windows 7 Beta.