The next Windows 7 update will be the release candidate, Microsoft announced Friday.
"The next milestone for the development of Windows 7 is the Release Candidate or 'RC,'" Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, wrote in a blog post. "Right now, every day we are researching issues [with the beta release], resolving them, and making sure those resolutions did not cause regressions (in performance, behavior, compatibility, or reliability)."
"The path to Release Candidate is all about getting the product to a known and shippable state both from an internal and external (Beta usage and partner ecosystem readiness) standpoint," he wrote.
That path does not yet include a release date.
"When is the Release Candidate and RTM? The answer is forthcoming," Sinofsky wrote. "We are currently evaluating the feedback and telemetry and working to develop a robust schedule that gets us the right level of quality in a predictable manner. Believe me, we know many people want to know more specifics."
The team is "taking a quality-based approach to completing the product and won't be driven by imposed deadlines," he said.
So what's happening now?
"A very significant portion of our effort from Beta to RC is focused on exclusively on quality and performance," Sinofsky wrote. "We want to fix bugs experienced by customers in real usage as well as our broad base of test suites and automation."
At its peak, the Windows 7 team was getting "send feedback" notes from users every 15 seconds. The team got some "feedback where we thought something was straight forward or would work fine, but in practice needed some tuning and refinement," he wrote. "Over the next weeks we'll be blogging about some of these specific changes to the product."
By the time the release candidate is ready, there will be very little fine-tuning from a coding perspective, Sinofsky wrote. "The ship [will be] on the launch pad and all the tools ... put away in the toolbox to be used only in case of the most critical issues."
source : www.pcmag.com
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