I learned that Windows 7 RC has an expiration date of June 2010. That's great because it means I have adequate time to try it out to see if I like it or not.

I have been asked in the PCMech LIVE show several times, "Did you try Windows 7 yet?" My answer was no because I didn't want to install an OS that had a close expiration date on it. This doesn't exactly give me street cred so to speak in tech circles because I'm still using XP Pro edition and never bought Vista (nor do I plan to).

Side note: This is why you don't see Vista articles on PCMech. Dave runs Macs. He only ran Vista for a very brief period of time before getting so sick of it that he switched whole hog to the Apple platform. I personally stuck with XP.

I want to make clear that Vista is not a "bad" OS, especially since the release of SP1 months ago. Neither of us choose to run it, that's all.

Compared to others, I won't be running it in a virtual session. I'm actually (gasp) going to dare and run it as my primary OS. To date I know several people that are doing this now and say it runs absolutely wonderful and that this is the one they were waiting for. Will it be for me? Time will tell.

In addition, Microsoft should be offering a way to "convert" your RC into a retail-licensed OS (with purchase of license of course), so when that time comes I shouldn't have to install it all over again. This is assuming I even like it to begin with.

If all goes well, you should finally start seeing some Win 7 articles here on PCMech - in-depth ones that is. I was waiting for the time when a nice long expiration date would happen and I got my wish.

And yes, I did download Win 7 on bittorrent. It is well known that Microsoft purposely wants people to download this and try it out, else they wouldn't have given out the super-long expiration on the OS in the first place.

Win 7 stuff coming soon. Watch for it.