Sunday, February 22nd 2009
Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Release Candidate Will Launch on April 10 2009
In an exclusive interview with the guys at Neowin.net, Microsoft have confirmed, that provided no serious problems arise, they are on track to release Windows 7 RC on April 10. As yet the only changes which are known about, are User Account Control (UAC) fixes which prevent malware from disabling UAC all together.
More information about the development of Windows 7 comes from Geeksmack, with their email conversation with Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft Senior Vice President of Windows. Sinofsky said, "We have received an amazing amount of feedback, many suggestions for new features too, during the beta-over 500,000 suggestions just from the Send Feedback button." What was also interesting to note, "... by far the most humorous element has been that the build numbers blogged about are higher than our current build. Today's build is 7046, but it hasn't completed yet :-)"
Sinofsky is also said to have spoken to Ars Technica, and said that, "The build will be available broadly".
Sources:
Neowin.net, Geeksmack, Ars Technica
More information about the development of Windows 7 comes from Geeksmack, with their email conversation with Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft Senior Vice President of Windows. Sinofsky said, "We have received an amazing amount of feedback, many suggestions for new features too, during the beta-over 500,000 suggestions just from the Send Feedback button." What was also interesting to note, "... by far the most humorous element has been that the build numbers blogged about are higher than our current build. Today's build is 7046, but it hasn't completed yet :-)"
Sinofsky is also said to have spoken to Ars Technica, and said that, "The build will be available broadly".
45 Comments on Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Release Candidate Will Launch on April 10 2009
If you take a look here, they are saying it could be June/July. :D
www.xpworld.com/
Not to bad, only 2 months later than they originally planned and only one name change, since I got the scoop at CES from them.
Also does this feel rushed to anyone else? Seems to me like they are rolling it out a little faster than they should....
:toast:
The only complaint I have about this new OS is it still uses a registry. I wish they could come up with something better.
www.itnews.com.au/News/96324,windows-7-should-be-out-for-christmas.aspx
its in beta just now but the RC will no doubt give a better pre view of the release version
people seem to forget it took years for xp to gain stability and it wasnt exactly the most resource friendly back in the day with systems with 256 and 512 mb memory of course a quad or a dual will eat up xp but it wasnt like that back in the day
so for windows 7 to be as good as an established OS is great
IDE, well Asus' approach to that is to put it in a PITA place, I swear they're trying to stop people using IDE.
I'd love to be having a play with win7 but I realised I downloaded the 64 bit version when I tried to run it on my netbook earlier, headdesk.
Not only that, creating Rars takes ages, it didn't with XP. An hour to fit around 4.5GB into a Rar? Fuck that, took less than 30 mins on XP.
Boot is slower, browsing files in My Documents with thumbnails takes forever for them all to load, didn't on XP. Waiting on Uninstall programs to show, slow. Opening folders in the start menu? slow.
I've been using XP for about 5 years and Vista is nowhere near faster than XP for me.
I'm waiting for Windows 7 to come out, I didn't have any speed issues with that on my old rig.