Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate 856
b8fait writes "The head of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows development confirmed that Windows 7 will take the unusual path of moving straight from a single beta, which was launched earlier this month, to a release candidate. Sinofsky fleshed out the plan today and hinted that just as there would be no Beta 2, the company would also not provide a RC2 build. In other words, there may be only one released build of Windows 7 before it ships, possibly much sooner than even some of the most aggressive rumors about Windows 7. How much different can Windows 7 really be with such a shortened beta cycle?"
It's the same as vista (Score:5, Funny)
testing (Score:1, Funny)
i hear they're head-hunting some testers from Google, so all should go swimmingly.
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:2, Funny)
Dude, Vista was the first beta.
Re:It's the same as vista (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:5, Funny)
How many betas does a service pack need?
"Regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect." - Linus Torvalds
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:5, Funny)
How many service packs will this beta need?
Re:One thing I wish they'd fucking fix (Score:1, Funny)
That's how they get away with it. At the end of the day with Windows 7 RC1, they can just claim they never got any negative feedback throughout the beta or the RC, and release it without much more thought. Brilliant! I know some open source projects that could benefit from using this idea. *shoots self in the foot*
Re:Not very (Score:3, Funny)
Wanna bet? Just watch.
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:3, Funny)
I hear that the developers for Windows 7SP1 will include a natively-built grep-like utility.
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Congratulations - you win! (Score:5, Funny)
You have officially won the "semantics of the year" award!!
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:5, Funny)
Re:M$ takes a page from Coke (Score:3, Funny)
Then they took 2 years thinking up a new name for it...
I can see it now.
Developer A: Windows 5?
Ballmer: [ thows chair at him ]
Developer B: [ sheepishly ] Windows 6?
Ballmer: [ throws chair at him ]
Developer C: [ sheepishly ] Windows 7?
Ballmer: Thats the greatest thing I've heard all day!!!
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:5, Funny)
You're an idiot.
No, I'm a jerk. Get it right. Idiots are stupid, I am simply mean.
Re:Marketing play (Score:4, Funny)
It should come without browser, and no ftp, and don't get me started on Telnet!!!
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:3, Funny)
Apparently you are doubly an idiot. One for thinking that screen means Win7 is Vista 2.0 and two for thinking that makes you "mean" and not a moron.
No, other things make me mean. My slashdot posts do not define me.
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, and a human is 97% genetically indistinguishable from a pig.
Well, that explains the taste.
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:5, Funny)
NEW WINDOWS 7!!! Using the ALL-NEW, cutting edge NT kernel version 6.1!
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, it annoys me when people are all "Windows N+1 is really just Windows N!".
Win 7 is based on Vista, which is based on 2003, which shares a lot with XP, both of which come from Win2k, which comes from NT4 (along with some eye candy and features from the Win9x line -- which is really Win 3.x with 32 bit thunking, which itself was little more than a GUI for DOS, which itself was much of a CP/M clone), which comes from older NT 3.x series, which inherited part of it's design from VMS (itself being based on RSX-11) and OS/2 (which seemingly had some stuff in common with DOS)...
They might as well say Win 7 is CP/M (or whatever CP/M evolved from) as far as I'm concerned. I'd love to see them whine about OS X being NeXTSTEP for a change. *NOTHING* in use these days is truly new/not reusing any old code, ideas, designs and methodologies.
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:5, Funny)
Did Linus just with an argument on Slashdot? With himself? The guy's a superhero in my book.
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:2, Funny)
NEW! WINDOWS 7! IT'S NOT VISTA!
Re:This seems abrupt (Score:5, Funny)
You accidentally the verb.
Re:Congratulations - you win! (Score:5, Funny)
You have officially won the "semantics of the year" award!!
Won? It's only January! This is a contender at best. At least wait till we get a few good car analogy threads before we start handing out awards.