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Today I responded to a question from Microsoft’s Tjeerd Veninga which was published through Twitter. He put out the question : “My family is no on RC too, how about yours?”

Below that question he blogged about the tools you can use for migrating from the beta to the Release Candidate. He used the same tool I described a few weeks back. At the end of hist post he asked for Feedback the Windows 7 Release Candidate through a (new?) Microsoft website called Input.Microsoft.com.

When you log on to the website (first you have to sign in with your Windows Live ID) you’ll see a screen (like below) where you can select Windows 7 Scenarios.

In the fist screen you have to set your local preferences. When you selected them you are able to give your feedback about the operating system. Isn’t that cool or what?!

I think it’s cool that Microsoft is giving us (the users of Windows 7) another possibility to give feedback about the new Windows 7 Operating System!

If you still weren’t able to upgrade or install the Windows 7 Release Candidate, you still have until August 15 to download it. So you have plenty of time, can even enjoy a long vacation before you start upgrading .

Still using Windows 7 Beta? You have 7 days left to upgrade to Windows 7 Release Candidate before your pc starts to reboot every two hours!

Since yesterday it’s possible to (legally) install one (or what the heck..all if you want) languagepacks for Windows 7 Ultimate RC.  Just open Windows Update and click the optional updates are available link to select the language you would like to install!

There are 31 Windows 7 Ultimate Language Packs available including the following : Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.

So would you like to run Windows 7 RC in your own language? Now….you can!!

If you’re still running Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) you should know that as of July 1, 2009 (*) June 1, 2009 your computer will behave strange (your pc will shutdown every two hours!) and on August 1, 2009 Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) will expire and you won’t be able to use it anymore!

Please upgrade (or reinstall) your computer with the Release Candidate of Windows 7.

Upgrade tip : You can easily use the Windows Easy Transfer tool to move all your user settings to the Release Candidate build! To start the Windows Easy Transfer tool just type Windows Easy Transfer after you clicked the Start button.

You can easily backup your files/settings to a USB disk and move them back after you installed the Release Candidate.

(*) The correct date is July 1, 2009. Source : Windows Team Blog

Just an hour ago Brandon LaBlanc posted this message on the WindowsTeamBlog. Read the whole message on the WindowsTeamBlog.

A small quote from his post :

If the telemetry we receive from the Windows 7 RC meets our expectations in terms of quality, then we expect to hit RTM in 3 months or so.

Let’s hope they RC does meet the expectations and we can expect the RTM somewhere at the end of August 2009! Hmm…if the RTM is reached somewhere at the end of August we probably can expect Windows 7 at the stores somewhere at the end of September / begin of October?

What do you think? Leave your responses at the comments!