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Windows 7—what's the rush?
Ars Technica ^ | February 3, 2009 | Peter Bright

Posted on 02/03/2009 7:10:52 PM PST by antiRepublicrat

Steven Sinofsky this week reaffirmed that Windows 7 would only have a single public beta release—build 7000, still available for download for a few more days. The current expectation is that there will be a single Release Candidate in April, with RTM around July, and Windows 7 hitting stores a few months later.

This plan marks a significant departure from Microsoft's historic Windows release strategy. Previous editions have had at least two betas and two Release Candidates; even Windows XP, a minor update to Windows 2000, received this treatment. Windows Vista went even further during its extended development period. In addition to formal betas and Release Candidates, a number of "Community Technical Preview" (CTP) releases were made available, to allow third-party developers to track the progress more closely.

How is this even possible?

This condensed release schedule is a result of a new development methodology. Underlying this is Microsoft's new commitment to what the company calls "quality." "Quality" is kind of a vague term—after all, it's not as if the company wants to ship something low-quality, even if it might not always seem that way. In this case, it means six things: device compatibility, application compatibility, performance, reliability, battery life, and security. These are not the only areas of concern for the new OS—things like the user experience and documentation quality are still important, but these six are viewed as fundamental. Windows 7 is intended to raise the bar in each of these areas and, to achieve that, Microsoft has used a new development process for this release.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: 7; getamac; lowqualitycrap; microsoft; trylinux; windows
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To: Blue Highway

Lol i still have my Atari 800 sitting on a shelf in my computer room right now.


101 posted on 02/09/2009 12:56:42 PM PST by ASH71
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To: ASH71

I’d like to see a picture of that :)


102 posted on 02/09/2009 3:38:37 PM PST by Blue Highway
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