Windows 7 RC1 Branch Builds being Compiled?

W7_Logo News has come down the grapevine that Microsoft have already branched off winmain and started compiling RC1 branch builds, no doubt preparing for the public release of Windows 7 RC.  This tells me that Microsoft is far ahead of schedule with Windows 7 development and are going full speed ahead to get this release polished up and done.

This news has come to us in the form of a build tag which sports the typical naming scheme for milestone branch builds.  7048.winmain_win7rc1.090211-1625 is the tag.  As you can see, this build was compiled on February 11th 2009 at 4:25 PM.  On one hand it is good to see Microsoft moving this quickly with the development of Windows 7, but on the other it is a little concerning.  Microsoft have only officially released one build (7000) which went to beta testers and the public alike.  One build is not enough to gather enough feedback to move ahead this quickly IMO.  Windows is a far more complex piece of software than Office and I hope Mr. Sinofsky can learn that before this beta cycle is over.

Beta testers (and the public) will likely see RC1 within the next month or two and then likely will not see anything until Microsoft declare Windows 7 to be RTM, thus making the technical beta utterly USELESS.  I am a part of the Windows 7 beta and I am not pleased with what I am seeing.  There is no incentive to testing anymore, anything we get the public gets, so can someone remind me why I’m on the techbeta?  We have gotten no new builds, our feedback is not being taken seriously, etc…  Granted they have the public testing and they are getting BOATLOADS of SQM data, but that simply isn’t enough.  That won’t fix rogue usability issues, or odd app incompatibility issues, or driver issues etc…  So if anyone from the beta team reads this, please rethink your strategy and think about releasing some more builds for testing.  It can’t hurt, it can only help the end product.

So anyway, I know I drifted off into a bit of a rant but I feel the above needed to be said, and hopefully this feedback is taken seriously by the Windows team (hey there’s a chance, it’s not like we’re dealing with the Windows Live team, those people don’t know the meaning of the word feedback).

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Posted by: Chris123NT

Published on: February 17th, 2009 at 5:38 PM

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  1. February 19, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    Sicarius:

    That’s not build 7048. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/build-7048-confirmed-windows-7-rc1-build-on-february-27.ars

  2. February 26, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    Peter:

    Windows Live Team not listening? I’m sorry but all my suggestions, I repeat, all my suggestions from WLM 8 got added into WLM 2009. Maybe not only because of me, but because of people asking for it.

    I remember testing the live services on the web and giving feedback as soon as we got to it. Lot’s of my feedback got taken seriously and some parts of it are added right away. Incompatible with google chrome? A week later, MS fixed it (untill chrome was updated again wich destroyed it again).

    So many things I liked and suggested over the years got added in the 2009 release. And we testers are able to simply start a chat at any time with one of the Windows Live developers, and give our feedback. Not just offline messaging, but direct response.

    I know some feedback got not fixed in the RTM release, but as MS explained most of those things barelly got used. That not a way to simply leave the bug there, but other things got more priority.

    In the Windows Beta, you get NO usefull replies, serious issues (like UAC) never got taken seriously, or even heard. Only after like 5 HUGE threats they could take 2 minutes of their time telling it was by design. Like if we didn’t know that already.

    In the past few years I learned two things. Get in personal contact with the developers when possible, 2nd make noice about important issues not taken seriously.

  3. April 26, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    Windows 7 RC1 gets special Features:

    Windows 7 RC1 gets special Features…

    I have an Nvidia board and had exactly the same quicktime/ itunes issues, BSOD’ s and stuttering under Vista. My fix was to go into device manager and find“ Nvidia Nforce serial ATA controller” and then right click and select update driver softwa…

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