This bit of news comes close on the heels of signs from Redmond on progressive builds of the latest and perhaps the greatest of Microsoft’s releases in a while (at least since XP) – Windows 7.

News around the blogs and tech sites are exclaiming that leaked copies of the first Release Candidate (RC1) are freely available on Torrent trackers and News sites all around. I quickly checked and indeed it is true. This from BinSearch.

Release Candidates are usually public betas (therefore legal), so I would encourage people (the more adventurous of the readers) to go ahead and procure a copy and try out this magnificent OS asap.

Of course, Leopard trumps anything Windows (disclaimer disclaimer).