Windows 7 RC: Screenshots

We give you a sneak peek at the upcoming release candidate of Windows 7 before Microsoft unveils the software to the public next week.

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The edition of Windows 7 beta that we tested is the "Build 7100" version labelled as the release candidate that has been making the rounds and was apparently leaked earlier this week. The official release candidate of Windows 7 is due to be released to the public on 5 May.

To get these screenshots we installed Windows 7 both within a VMware virtual machine, to document Windows 7's install process, and on a Dell Optiplex 960.

(Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au)

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Vista Vincent -- 30/04/09

It looks just like Vista. What's the point of this gallery?

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Image gallery technique sto cazzo -- 30/04/09

This is the worst image gallery ever!!
No Prev-Next buttons. Reload the page every image.

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Image Gallery Technique Anonymous -- 05/05/09 (in reply to #320133283)

Of course it is..... reload new page every image that is.... its to give them another PI (page impression) in their statistics

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Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Anthony Eden -- 01/05/09

I'm liking those Australian images. I wonder if other countries have their own?

By the way, why are you showing us stuff like Device Manager, Storage Manager, and the Local Security Policy MMCs? They haven't changed since Vista, AFAIK.

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Because Mel Sommersberg -- 02/05/09 (in reply to #320133607)

"By the way, why are you showing us stuff like Device Manager, Storage Manager, and the Local Security Policy MMCs? They haven't changed since Vista, AFAIK."

Because a lot of people don't run Vista and would like to run 7 once it comes out.

I also agree with the second comment here about the image viewer. Every time I click for a new image I have to scroll the page down again because of the deep masthead. The dimming feature on rollover is not the best idea either.

The pictures will fit inside an 800 x 600 popup window so why not do that instead?

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Windows 7 Anonymous -- 07/06/09

I like to let u know this is much better than vista.
im running it on a crappy 5 year old laptop (p4 and 516 ram) and it's really fast. It hibernates faster than my laptop which is brand new, also unhibernates.
IT looks like vista so muhc though so thats a minus

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I have W7 on my pc Andrew -- 07/10/09

I have the OEM and I absolutely love it, It definately fixes the mess vista made. W7 is a very stable and smooth OS, and yes it does have backgrounds from across the globe, infact there is an option for the background to change every 'x' minutes. This is just a little example of how they have made this the most customisable windows ever! The GUI sets the standerd and paves the way for the future.

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