Microsoft has released their Windows 7 Release Candidate to partners and the public. This new operating system has been well received by technical bloggers over the past months, and seems to perform much more smoothly than its predecessors, even on machines with hardware that is considered outdated by today's standards.

More information on this exciting new release can be found on Microsoft's website:

Windows 7 Information

We begin testing this software this week, we'll have more information as it gets closer to the actual release date for Windows 7!