Next version of Windows 7 will be Release Candidate

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The goal with all this testing, he said, was to improve the user experience. “A very significant portion of our effort from Beta to RC is focused on exclusively on quality and performance. We want to fix bugs experienced by customers in real usage as well as our broad base of test suites and automation. A key part of this work is to fix the bugs that people really encounter and we do so by focusing our efforts on the data we receive to drive the ordering and priority of which bugs to fix.”

He noted that some complaints the team has received involve keyboard settings and defaults, but that there would likely be very few changes to the code. “We often ‘joke’ that this is the point of lowest productivity for the development team because we all come to work focused on the product but we write almost no code,” Sinofsky noted.

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