Microsoft’s upcoming version of Windows is hotly anticipated even by yours truly, who traditionally wasn’t too interested in operating system updates. However, our Simon Pfundstein claims that things will get a lot faster…which definitely isn’t a bad thing.

A release candidate is Microsoft-Speak for an almost finished product which is made available for free download to almost everybody.

NeoWin.net managed to get a screenshot of a Microsoft.com page stating that a release candidate will be released on the 5th of May – as the web site has since been removed, this is pretty telling…


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