Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Oct 2009 12:52 UTC
Windows It's October 22 today. A completely random date in the grand scheme of things (we Dutch lost a big naval battle to the Ming dynasty on October 22 1633), but it also happens to be the release date of the newest version of Windows - Windows 7. Since Windows is still the most popular desktop operating system out there, this is pretty big news.
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RTM vs Release
by Budd on Thu 22nd Oct 2009 14:47 UTC
Budd
Member since:
2005-07-08

Are there significant differences? I will most probably get one Ultimate license from the work and want to know if it worth to replace my RTM install with the full one. Otherwise,I may wait until June next year. Really,it is just a Vista (my opinion) that moves faster. I'm looking forward to the home networking stuff but I understand all computers must run Win7. Well,I have only one computer running Win7. I still think Snow Leopard runs circles around Win7 in terms of simplicity and usability.But that's my take (my main work machine is XP). It is sad to see that new OS's release don't get any coverage on Page 1. SL had some note on Page 2. Luckily there's Ars Technica for quality reviews/previews.

RE: RTM vs Release
by modmans2ndcoming on Mon 26th Oct 2009 01:18 in reply to "RTM vs Release"
modmans2ndcoming Member since:
2005-11-09

RTM is the full release.

You mean RC? other than the fact that next June it will stop working... not too much changed.

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