Nearly a month ago in February, Chaitanya Sareen published an article on the Engineering Windows 7 blog detailing thirty six of the main changes in the Windows 7 RC. Now, the Engineering team has posted another set of 27 changes made in the release candidate at the Engineering Blog.
The blog post, entitled “A few more changes from Beta to RC…” goes over twenty seven changes that showcase the new operating system’s improvement over the past months. Here’s a short-version of the blog’s list with pictures:
Desktop Experience
List View of running windows appears on hover and supports close
- Improved taskbar thumbnail overflow
- Control Panel Jump List
Control Panel Jump list
- PowerShell Jump List
- Remote Desktop Jump List
- Applying taskbar settings fix
Touch
- Multi-touch zoom in Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer/Libraries
- Invert Selection
- Going up? - folder hierarchy fix
- 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
Device Stage - Windows 7
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
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