Pre-release version of Windows 7 released.

The replacement for Windows Vista is ready made. Since Thursday, developers can almost finished version, which Microsoft promises many new features. Normal users must still wait for a few days.

 

Redmond / Munich - Microsoft on Thursday launched the draft version of the Vista successor
Windows 7 released for download - but initially only for professional users and developers. Starting next Tuesday, the 5th May be the new operating system as a so-called "Release Candidate" for everyone to download is available, Microsoft announced officially on Thursday. Since the first beta version of the software that the company had published in early January, several new features were added.

Thus even with the new operating system older programs can be used now, Microsoft offers an emulator, which the old Windows XP on a so-called virtual machine is simulated. Instead of the newer XP, Vista is still in many applications. Unlike some industry observers expected, this emulation solution, however, not integrated into the operating system, but as a separate software package for Windows, version 7 Professional, and Windows 7 Ultimate offered.

In the next Tuesday at the available version of Windows 7 including a feature that allows you from any computer on the home PC can access stored media.

Also, the search and the command bar will once again have been improved. In the current version supports Windows 7 now features such as drag and drop for computers that are on a touch screen controlled.

In the Release Candidate, it is still not the finished software, says Microsoft and advises caution. The best should be the operating system only on test machines are used where no other data or programs affected will be downgraded.