De eerder dit jaar gelanceerde bèta van Microsoft’s Windows 7 is tevens ook gelijk de laatste. Volgens het ontwikkelaarsteam van de softwaregigant is de volgende versie gelijk een Release Candidate, zo is op hun blog weten.
Wanneer de Release Candidate uit zal komen wil nog niemand kwijt, echter het gerucht gaat nog steeds rond dat de opvolger van Vista nog dit jaar uit zal komen. De huidige bèta versie is nog even te downloaden, deze zal pas over 1,5 week offline gehaald worden.
“With the RC, this process of feedback based on telemetry then repeats itself. However at this milestone we will be very selective about what changes we make between the Release Candidate and the final product, and very clear in communicating them.
We will act on the most critical issues. The point of the Release Candidate is to make sure everyone is ready for the release and that there is time between the Release Candidate and our release to PC makers and manufacturing to validate all the work that has gone on since the pre-Beta. Again, we expect 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. That’s the way it has to be—the ship is on the launch pad and all the tools are put away in the toolbox to be used only in case of the most critical issues“. Bron: Tweakers.net.
