As promised, Microsoft have made the Windows 7 RC download available. Links to the bits are here.

As a follow up from my last blog post, there are a few oddities with IE8 in this build – it keeps hanging up trying to retrieve some of the ads served up by uk.msn.com, and slashdot.org is slooooow.

Apart from that, everything seems peachy. I especially like the aero-peek-on-alt-tab and the DCR on the explorer breadcrumbs that means they’re actually useful for navigation now!

Biggest visible changes are the new themes, pictures and…sit down and take a deep breath…a change of the snippets of sample music. Yes, Beethoven is toast. Welcome to the age of Debussy.