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We’ve been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback we’ve received on Windows 7.? It should be no surprise but the Release Candidate for Windows 7 will have quite a few changes, many under the hood so to speak but also many visible.? Some have asked if the featureset is “frozen” then what will we change–we change a lot of things in the beta based on feedback and we try to do so in a systematic manner with the focus on the goals for the release.? The goal of having a fully functional Beta was to make sure we received reliable feedback and not a lot of “hey this doesn’t work at all” sorts of reports.? This has allowed us to really focus on delivering a refined RC where the changes we made are all the reflection of feedback we have received.? Building on the previous post that looked at the broad view of feedback, we want to start posting on the feedback and the engineering actions we’ve taken in responding to the feedback.? We won’t be able to cover all the changes (as we’re still busy making them), but for today we wanted to start with a sampling of some of the more visible changes.? We’re still on the same path working towards the release candidate and of course we know everyone is anxious for the next phase of our path to RTM.? In the meantime, our full time machines are still running the Beta build.? Today’s post is from Chaitanya, who has previously posted on some of the core user interface work. –Steven This blog post talks about a few of the improvements that will be in our Release Candidate (RC) based upon customer feedback. There are many under the hood changes (bug fixes, compatibility fixes, performance improvements, and improvements) across the entire dev team that we just don’t have room to discuss here, but we thought you’d enjoy a taste of some changes made by three of our feature teams: Core User Experience, Find & Organize and Devices & Media.? The comments in this article come from a variety of verbatim sources, with identifying information withheld.? Desktop Experience 1

Just testing to see how Windows 7 fares on my 4 year old Dell Inspiron E1705. The results are very pleasing.

As we connect through this blog and through all of those talking about Windows 7 it is clear that folks have a lot of passion around many topics.? We learned early on about the passion around the boot/startup sequence and how important it was for that to go by quickly! At the same time, we know that it is really dull to watch a HDD light blink when resuming a machine from hibernate or powering up a machine. To improve this first connection with people, we set out to improve the boot sequence—jazz it up if you will.

Kriss H asked: NOT THE BETA. I am getting a new computer for graduation in june. Will windows 7 be out by then?

Even with the pictures and videos so commonplace on PCs, many of us spend most of our time looking at and interacting with text. Yet few of us stop to think about the depth of technology required to render text well and that this is an area that continues to benefit from improved technology in displays, graphics cards, as well as the APIs available to developers.

Blaine H asked: I have windows 7 beta on my laptop and i want to dual install ubuntu on it. All i could find was how to install windows 7 on ubuntu not ubuntu on 7.

Talking about the 6 different version of Windows 7 and answering the question about if we need this many.

www.vincebognot.com Episode #4- Are you lazy? Well, in this episode, I will be showing you “Aero Snap” in Windows 7 Beta Build 7000.

Microsoft has been working on handwriting recognition for over 15 years going back to the Pen extensions for Windows 3.0.? With the increased integration and broad availability of the handwriting components present in Windows Vista we continue to see increased use of handwriting with Windows PCs.? We see many customers using handwriting across a wide variety of applications including schools, hospitals, banking, insurance, government, and more.? It is exciting to see this natural form of interaction used in new scenarios.? Of course one thing we need to continue to do is improve the quality of recognition as well as the availability of recognizers in more languages around the world.? In this post, Yvonne, a Program Manager on our User Interface Platform team, provides a perspective on engineering new recognizers and recognition improvements in Windows 7.? –Steven Hi, my name is Yvonne and I’m a Program Manager on the Tablet PC and Handwriting Recognition team. This post is about the work we’ve done to improve recognition in handwriting for Windows 7