{"id":1994,"date":"2009-06-25T07:06:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T05:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corelan.be:8800\/index.php\/2009\/06\/25\/windows-7-beta-vs-release-candidate\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T07:06:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T05:06:55","slug":"windows-7-beta-vs-release-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corelan.be\/index.php\/2009\/06\/25\/windows-7-beta-vs-release-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Beta vs Release Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--h3dip4reg5-->If you are still running Windows 7 Beta, then it\u2019s time to check out the Release Candidate version.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has reported on the <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/blogs\/springboard\/archive\/2009\/06\/23\/windows-7-release-candidate-downloads-will-end-august-15th.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Windows team blog<\/a> that the Beta version will \u2018stop working\u2019 (in fact it will reboot every 2 hours) starting from July 1st. However, you can download the RC version, but the downloads will be closed on august 15th.<\/p>\n<p>Download RC (and get yourself a\u00a0 key) from <a title=\"Downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/evalcenter\/dd353205.aspx?ITPID=wcfeed\">Downloads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The RC version will stop working (= rebooting every 2 hours) in march 2010, and will stop working entirely in june 2010.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that the final version will be released to the public <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/blogs\/windows7\/archive\/2009\/06\/02\/the-date-for-general-availability-ga-of-windows-7-is.aspx\">on October 22nd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More info about Windows 7 can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/blogs\/windows7\/default.aspx\">Windows 7 Team blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are still running Windows 7 Beta, then it\u2019s time to check out the Release Candidate version. Microsoft has reported on the Windows team blog that the Beta version will \u2018stop working\u2019 (in fact it will reboot every 2 hours) starting from July 1st. However, you can download the RC version, but the downloads &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corelan.be\/index.php\/2009\/06\/25\/windows-7-beta-vs-release-candidate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Windows 7 Beta vs Release Candidate\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[201],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-client-os","tag-windows"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windows 7 Beta vs Release Candidate - Corelan | Exploit Development &amp; Vulnerability Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corelan.be\/index.php\/2009\/06\/25\/windows-7-beta-vs-release-candidate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windows 7 Beta vs Release Candidate - Corelan | Exploit Development &amp; Vulnerability Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you are still running Windows 7 Beta, then it\u2019s time to check out the Release Candidate version. 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