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
Maybe it's your system.
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 2.0GHz < *cough*
Motherboard: ASRock 4 Core Dual VSTA
Cooling: 5x120mm, 1x200mm, Stock Intel Cooler
Memory: Crucial 2048MB DDR2 PC2-4300 @ 296MHz
Video Card: 512MB Sapphire X1950Pro
Vista shines on a machine with enough power, and when you tweek it a bit it runs pretty damn spanky, kill off a few services, tweek a couple settings and you have a nice fast OS.
Now im not a Vista fanboy... i run XP on my main desktop, as well as my HTPC (HTPC will be switching to 64bit vista/7 here soon enough), i run Vista Business on my primary laptop... mind you its not exactly a slow laptop, T9300, 4GB, 7200RPM HDD, dedicated video etc.
Vista with enough power flys, vista without enough power is a POS.... though its like that with ANY operating system... people need to stop blaming vista. Go run XP on a 400Mhz pentium 2, with 128MB ram, and tell me it runs nice.
If it's a fresh system, it will be busy indexing things, if your HDD is slow then your experience of opening folders is going to be slow especially while indexing is going on.
Windows 7 RC is build 7046 ... they doing builds 3 times a day or what?
Windows 7 is Not faster than XP!
It has been proven and it will be proven more when the final is released.
Vista is Not faster than XP and made no improvements to user productivity.
In fact many things took an extra click or two in Vista.
So just to be clear here..
They are not faster and not more productive.
If your computer is mainly used as a toy for ammusment purposes then Vista and Win7 will work great for your needs.
Either of these will give you a shinny new OS that's more engaging and as a byproduct enables you to justify your obsession to purchase extremely overpriced bleeding edge hardware.
Think People!
Also XP is sooo incredibly insecure, maybe I've got used to UAC popping up and stopping viruses installing themselves but I was on the internet without AV for 5 minutes to get firefox and anti-virus and I've got a virus that seems to redirect me to ad sites when I google stuff.