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Microsoft Announces 36 Notable Updates for Windows 7 Release Candidate

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Microsoft made the Windows 7 Beta public, and many of you heeded the call of duty. With your bug testing hat on and feedback hands ready to type, you’ve made it possible for Microsoft to announce a whopping 36 updates to the release candidate.

“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,” wrote Steven Sinofsky on Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog.

Among the laundry list of changes are edits so the desktop experience, networking upgrades, changes to the control panel, windows media player updates and performance upgrades. If you’re looking to check out the whole list of changes, be sure to check out the blog here.

 

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avatarI want my goddamn classic

I want my goddamn classic menus.

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avatarVist Ultimate trade-in?

How I hope they let me trade my copy of Vista Ultimate Retail in. I just went through a bunch of garbage related to trying to play 'Fearless' on blu-ray and it turned out my ATI card just needed to be updated...five bucks says it wouldn't have if it hadn't been on Vista. It was so odd that it rebooted Vista each time I tried playing the movie. Of course T2 played just fine the night before. I just want that fresh Windows installation feel, but not the headache of the file restoration, though I have taken an image with Acronis.

Not that I have had much problems with Vista but as of recently, it has been getting worse and I am dreading the inevitable reinstallation. Trying to hold out till SP2 releases so I can hit it out with one shot from SP1 then reinstall everything. It has just been getting so slow that I need to always keep my PC in Hibernate, rebooting on an occasion. Over 1:30 to boot? Dual Core, 4GB Dominator mem on a Raptor? Used to be 30 seconds! Come on!!

Anybody else got the same problem? Feel like they need an 'oil change' and start off fresh?

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avatarI love reinstalling

I guess im weird, but i love the challange of getting everything right where i want it.

Anyway, feel lucky man, I have a boot time of 5:50!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Im reinstalling today.

 

Asus M2N-SLI mobo

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avatarMicrosoft coming back?

Yes, we all know microsoft sucks.  Everything for the past many years has been designed to waste our money, and be full of bugs.  However, in the recent years with apple coming out of nowhere and dominating part of the market with their triple price-margin products, it seems Microsoft has finally decided to care about the customers and actually make their products decent.  Sure, vista had a crapload of problems at release and until sp1, and sure i'm probably jinxing it, but with Windows 7, it seems like microsoft might actually become a respectable name.

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avatarwho cares?

The media player in 7 is such garbage why even open the damn thing

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avatarDoes the Media Player still

Does the Media Player still default to invading your privacy more than your proctologist? Yeah, I really want you to monitor my music preferences and verify my licenses online....

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