IE8 RC1 for Windows 7 is live in Build 7025

The current Internet Explore 8 RC1 is for Windows Vista, XP, and Windows Server 2008 only; Windows 7 users will get an updated IE8 with the next update of Windows 7,” Dean Hachamovitch. But the version is live, as you can see in the screenshot, the leaked Windows 7 Build 7025, the most recent internal build of Windows 7 was from the Release Candidate branch of the operating system, and comes with Internet Explorer 8 RC1.