{"id":7656,"date":"2009-05-08T08:50:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=7656"},"modified":"2009-05-08T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T13:50:03","slug":"windows-7-rc-the-technologizer-faq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/windows-7-rc-the-technologizer-faq\/","title":{"rendered":"Technologizer: Windows 7 RC &#8211; FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/harrywp.jpg\" alt=\"harrywp\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7653 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Harry McCracken<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen questions (and answers!) on the new, almost-finished version of Microsoft&#8217;s next OS.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 is here\u00e2\u20ac\u201csort of. Yes, Microsoft still isn&#8217;t talking about when it&#8217;ll ship the final version\u00e2\u20ac\u201call evidence suggests it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be sometime this Fall\u00e2\u20ac\u201cbut the company is unleashing the Windows 7 Release Candidate today. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a free, all-but-final version of the operating system, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll work until March 1st, 2010 before Microsoft forces you to uninstall it or overwrite it with a paid-for copy of the final edition. In short, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re itching to give Windows 7 a try, you can.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been using Windows 7 in various prerelease incarnations since last October, and for the more part, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve liked what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen. (So did most of the Technologizer community members who took our survey on the beta.) For the past few days I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been running the Release Candidate\u00e2\u20ac\u201cmostly on an Asus EeePC 1000HE, and to a lesser extent on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. (Full disclosure: The latter machine was loaned to me by Microsoft for Windows 7 testing.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be writing about this beta a lot in the coming months\u00e2\u20ac\u201cright up until the time that I get my hands on a version of W7 that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even closer to being ready to roll. After the jump, some questions and answers about the Release Candidate and Windows 7 in general.<\/p>\n<p>1. So should I use this Release Candidate?<br \/>\nThe usual caveat applies, at least officially: Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use pre-release software for mission-critical work. You might break a PC that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working well, or discover that some of your applications are incompatible only after you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve installed W7. That said, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve preferred prerelease versions of Windows 7 to Windows Vista for months now\u00e2\u20ac\u201ceven though it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an unfinished product, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s run faster and more smoothly on every computer I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve put it on than theoretically time-tested Vista.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also had good luck with compatibility\u00e2\u20ac\u201cI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve installed Microsoft Office 2007, Google Chrome, Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop, and other applications, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all run just fine. My Verizon USB EVDO modem works, too. Even Symantec\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Norton 360 security suite didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t completely choke\u00e2\u20ac\u201csecurity suites aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really supposed to work on new versions of Windows\u00e2\u20ac\u201calthough I did get an error message about an incompatible heuristics driver. (Symantec says it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finishing up work on a Win 7-friendly version of the product.)<\/p>\n<p>The biggest glitch I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve encountered so far: My HP OfficeJet Pro 7500 doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to want to install, even when I use W7\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s compatbility feature to attempt to fool the HP installer into thinking that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Windows Vista. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not done troubleshooting it, though\u00e2\u20ac\u201cand come to think of it, getting it to work with my Mac was also a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>In short, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think you have to be foolhardy or even particularly brave to take Windows 7 for a test drive. I would, however, recommend installing it alongside your current version of Windows rather than an top of it. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have no choice if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got Windows XP\u00e2\u20ac\u201cW7 doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t support XP upgrades. 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Yes, Microsoft still isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talking about when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll ship the final version\u00e2\u20ac\u201call evidence suggests it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be sometime this Fall\u00e2\u20ac\u201cbut the company is unleashing the Windows 7 Release Candidate today. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a free, all-but-final version of the operating system, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll work until March 1st, 2010 before Microsoft forces you to uninstall it or overwrite it with a paid-for copy of the final edition. 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