The Windows 7 Release Candidate has been released by Microsoft today, as per Microsoft the RC will be available through July 2009 also there will be no limitations on product keys so this means it will not repeat what happened during the public beta.

Few things to note about the RC is that it will expire on June 1, 2010, also below are the system requirements for the RC which although could change in the final product.

System requirements:

  • 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  • 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  • 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)
  • DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

So now head on to the Microsoft Windows RC Download Page and get going.