Acer’s United Kingdom Marketing Director, Bobby Watkins, leaked that the 23rd of October will be the release date for Windows 7.

This week, through the leak of the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100), Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera have teamed up to provide astonishing new information about one of the new features in Windows 7 called Windows XP Mode.

After months of beta testing and development by the Microsoft team, the moment has finally arrived. The Windows 7 Release Candidate was leaked today following the release of dozens of builds of the operating system up to that point.

Only days after the leak of build 7068 on torrent websites, screenshots of build 7070 have appeared. 7070 has the string 6.1.7070.0.winmain.090324-1853 and was compiled on March 24, 2009 at 6:53 PM.

The same Japanese blogger who released screenshots of build 7068 has now released downloadable versions of the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 build 7068.

A Japanese blog has released the first pictures of build 7068 or 7068.winmain.090321-1322.