Windows 7 dual development process into the Microsoft new surprise?

Earlier, at Microsoft's London headquarters meeting, Windows OEM director Laurence Painell said that Windows 7 would have a "new major update" in the next few weeks, but what kind of surprise is Painell? disclose. Although the appetite is Microsoft's usual means, but now Windows 7 has revealed the situation, Painell pointed out that it is very likely to be a new subversive feature.

As early as Windows Server 2008 development, project leader Alex said that Microsoft will completely change the way Windows is developed —— from the previous branch development to a linear development. In the past, Microsoft divided the different components of Windows into development branches, and summed them up at the end —— The advantage of this is that it can be mastered in parallel. The disadvantage is that although the interface has been detailed before. , but it is still inevitable to encounter various problems in the summary.

Those who are familiar with software development know that in the collaborative development of such large-scale applications, a small detail problem may cause huge failures in the summary process, and it takes a lot of time to debug the code. on. And even if the debugging is passed, there are hidden dangers and bugs.

We have seen that Microsoft recently changed its beta version of Windows 7 from a single compilation to two versions — — back to the way of branch development. The 70xx version has already solidified the system kernel. The next thing to do is to fix the stability, in order to release the RC version. The 71xx version is still making changes to the kernel and is ultimately targeting the RTM version. We can see that the 71xx version seems to be closer to the version we are going to get. The reason why Microsoft has returned to this kind of separate development is also because its schedule is urging tightly. It will be released at the end of 2009, which will lead Microsoft to launch the RC version as soon as possible to test the manufacturers and engineers. — undoubtedly absorbed Vista Lessons from the times.

Compared to the major update mentioned by Laurence, it seems to refer to the change from the 71xx version to the final RTM stage. Foreign media predicts that this update is most likely a new user interface that is "unexpected". After all, Windows 7 needs a big bright spot to build momentum for itself.