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SOME GREAT IMPROVEMENTS COMING SINCE BETA FOR THE RELEASE CANDIDATE OF WINDOWS 7:

Great improvements to Windows 7 based on the Beta and customer feedback over at the “Engineering Windows 7″ blog, which is really good to hear.

There are now two articles featured on the blog which discuss changes available for the RC.

The first, as at Feb 29, 2009:

• Desktop Experience
  • Aero Peek triggered from Windows Flip (ALT+TAB)
  • Windows Logo + <#> keyboard shortcut
  • Needy State
    
  • Taskbar “Open With”
    
  • Taskbar scaling
    
  • Anchoring taskbar thumbnails
  • Newly installed programs
    
  • Jump List length
    
  • Increased pinning flexibility with Jump List
  • Desktop icon and gadget view options
    
• Touch
  • Aero Peek for touch
    
  • Multi-touch touch keyboard
    
  • Multi-touch right-click
    
  • Drag/Drop and selection
    
• Networking
  • Internet access feedback
• Control Panel
  • User Account Control
  • Locking a machine without a screensaver
    
  • Faster access to High Performance power plan
    
  • Custom theme improvements
• Windows Media Player (meh)
  • Improved Internet Radio playback
    
  • Improved playback support for video content from digital camcorders and cameras
    
  • Cleaner Now Playing view
    
  • Filtering content that cannot be played
    
  • Resume from sleep
  • Quieting Windows Media Player sync relationships
    
  • Easier access to advanced settings
    
  • Jump List improvement
    
• Device Stage
  • Enriching the Device Stage ecosystem
    
• Sound UX
  • Improving the headphone experience
    
  • Increased audio reliability
    
• Windows Explorer and Libraries
  • Improved header
    
  • Reduced confusion with drag/drop
    
  • Reviving familiar entry points
    
  • FAT32 support
    
  • Arrangement view enhancements
    
• Performance
  • Improving performance through data (very interesting!)
    

And the second, released just hours ago, Mar 13, 2009:

• Desktop Experience
  • Improved taskbar thumbnail overflow
  • Control Panel Jump List
  • PowerShell Jump List
    
  • Remote Desktop Jump List
    
  • Applying taskbar settings
    
• Touch
  • Multi-touch zoom
• Windows Explorer and Libraries
  • Invert Selection
  • Going up?
    
  • Finding music by artist
    
  • New folder is always available
    
  • Right-click in Windows Explorer
    
  • Content view for search results
    
  • Intelligent re-indexing after application installation
    
• Performance
  • Trimming sound schemes to help performance
• Device Stage
  • Baseline Device Stage experience
    
  • Devices and Printers enhancement
    
• Devices and Printers
  • Unified experience for removing devices
  • Hardware properties
  • Improved eject experience
  • USB device reliability on resume
  • FireWire camera support
• Device Installation
  • Add Legacy Hardware functionality restored
  • Increased responsiveness of Add Printer Wizard
• System
  • Partition size reduction
  • Reserved System Partition naming
    
  • Dual Boot partition drive letter assignment
    
  • Pagefile reduction
    
• Network
  • Improved driver support

 
*Phew* that took a while to write.

Go check out list #1 and list #2 over here in detail.

CAN’T WAIT FOR WINDOWS 7! Plus new ALT+TAB peak feature actually looks really helpful! I’ve subscribed to their blog, you should too.
 

Am I a nerd?  I am also very excited over the new Windows 7 boot sequence.