Windows 7 RC to be released in April (Rumor)

Now I wouldn't be doing my blogging duties if I did not relay what another blog was talking about. According to Ars Technica, your Vista woes may be a little closer to ending as they are saying the public will get a Release Candidate version of Windows 7 to play with on April 10th.

This would be in keeping in line with Microsoft's intended release of Windows 7 to manufacturers in the fall for an intended OEM release by Christmas, with a retail, boxed release the next month.

Windows 7, as you might not already know is the successor to the clunkass Windows Vista, its debut was more like Windows ME than Windows XP and has wildly been regarded by the purchasing public as a bone-ass failure and a complete waste of consumer money.

Techs all over the interweb have been creaming themselves as Windows 7 seems to be faster, better, stronger, harder and sexier than its pasture predecessor, and harkens back to those good ole days called Windows XP when your computer only crashed 40% of the time, rather than 90% of the time.

Windows Vista is not dead however, as a Service Pack 2 is going to be released later this quarter or early 2nd quarter, for those of you still punching yourselves that you paid that much money for that large a piece of shit. (It's funny how the linked article still tries to upsell Vista by calling a Service Pack "extra incentive" in connection with upgrading rather than waiting for 7 - lame.)

Personally, I've downgraded all upgraded systems back to XP, except for anything newer that I bought which was OEM Vista. I have one system which is still Vista, and I try not to use it for things other than watching movies or websurfing because the Vista system is still wildly inconsistent (even after an SP1 upgrade).

One day our Windows 7 (6.1) prince will come.