Feeling Entity

When I'm discussing with my friends about Windows 7, the Windows enthusiast people in the group always bring the Release Candidate (RC) matter. I'm also feeling very enthusiastic about this speculated RC build. It seems that latest 'leaked' build 7048 have some close connection with the RC, some MS MVPs even started quoting it as the RC build. I managed to have a peek into this particular build on a friend's machine, it's really better than the previous public beta. But I don't think this is going to be the Release Candidate or whatever, this is just a 'internal' build that was not intended to be leaked into general users' hands. In fact, when Neowin almost surely telling that April 10 is definitely set for public release of RC, I think it will be something like build 7060 or 7064 that is going to be selected for RC. Let's see what happens on 10th of the coming month.

UPDATE : I have gone a step forward and even discussed about the most appropriate release date of Windows 7 RTM for MS. Check it out @ http://tinyurl.com/cy2ymc

Apart from the MP3 corruption goof-up in the first place, WMP 12 Beta looked nice to me. A change of taste from Vista's blacky to Windows Live-esque interface is really nice and easy one eyes. I've got a collection of 30+ albums on my PC now and I added them all to the library. Hell broke loose, pigs flew and magma froze - WMP behaves so slowly now that even finding a song by hand from 50 vinyl records is faster than switching from one to another in WMP. It hangs for a moment and then stutters to start playing a song, sometimes even forgets Album Arts. Playing mkv files is another story, even CoreAVC cannot boost FPS in 720p videos while VLC plays them fine.

I know it's still on BETA but the way it is going on and so sluggish compared to rest of the new Windows 7 Beta, MS needs serious attention on this one.

Today, I just completed my first one month with Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000). And it is time to look back on it, well at least on some part of it. The OS is itself huge and superflulos in someway for me. I just went through the necessary one and in opposite to Microsoft's suggestion to use each and every feature in the OS, I don't like to play with what I don't need.

Performace boosts, among other things is easily noticeable and perhaps the most discussed subject about Windows 7. I will also tell about reliability and compatibility. I did not see a beta to be such stable ever, and it easily recognize all of my existing hardwares in one go. MS still need to work on some glitches and put up make ups on some dark spots. Still, I'm satisfied the way it is evolving. I'll write more extensively in my website today. Keep going MS!