Thanks to the awesome power of my mom’s home internet, I’ve still got three hours to wait until the new Windows 7 Release Candidate build arrives, though I still wont have a chance to install it (I’m meant to be busy revising for an exam) until this weekend. This gives me plenty of time to get my hopes up about bug fixes I can expect. That said I can only think of one: I’m currently using Build 7000, ie the very first release, and shutting down is a pain, it seems to hang for ages, after I’ve had to do a forced shut down. It’s OK for when I’m leaving the house or going to bed, as I know it’ll shut down eventually and wont have been on all week draining away at the electricity meter while I’ve been on holiday, but when I need to do a reboot, particularly in a rush, then it can be a nuisance. But, that’s it really. I guess the only other thing I’m looking forwards to is the opportunity to reformat and clean up the mess on my hard drives, but that said, I haven’t really got much of a mess to be cleaned…
I’ll be reporting back this weekend with my first impressions of the RC, though my predictions are that I’ll not have anything to report. I’ve used Windows 7 Beta since it was first available, with Vista on a second partition just incase, and haven’t stopped using it or regretted installing it. At first I found it liberating to use, it seemed to fix everything I hated about Vista, and I had to nitpick to find bugs, which were fixed as more windows updates were released. In other words, I can’t imagine the release candidate as being much of an improvement as theres little to improve, apart from of course, performance. Performance can never be good enough. Never even satisfactory.