Troubleshooting: Windows 7 RC/RTM build

The frequent leakage of the internal development version gives everyone a full view of the development progress of Windows 7, giving us more early adopters, but it also brings a lot of confusion. For example, there is a saying, build 7105/7106 belongs to the RC category, because the RC series has more than 7100 compilation versions. Some people think that Microsoft is still developing the RC version and has not switched to RTM.

In fact, this is a misunderstanding that does not understand Microsoft's internal development process. Simply put, the Windows 7 Development tree is divided into two parts after build 7076: 7077 is compiled into the RC escrow series (winmain_win7rc), and The winmain lab jumps directly to 7105.

On the one handCodeIt has been frozen, and the 70xx series will not have any functional changes. The focus of developers is to eliminate bugs, after 7078, 7079, 7080 ...... After a stable RC version is completed, the RC version that passes the test and is publicly released will be build 7100. Now, why is 7077 considered an important version?

On the other hand, if there are any changes to the system code, the corresponding compilation version will belong to the 71xx series and will be heading for the final RTM official version, however, the specific build version of Windows 7 RTM is unclear (build 7200 ?).

In this way, if a new version is available in the near future, you can download and install it: Consider the stability of the 70xx series, and pursue new functions to catch up with the 71xx series.

Finally, let's compare the latest leaked 7106 (Simplified Chinese Version) with the previous 7077 (English version ). In fact, the former is the product of compiling and changing the version number on the basis of 7076, so there is not a lot of detail improvements in 7077. Therefore, from the code point of view, 7077 is actually better than 7106, however, the latter has a Simplified Chinese version, which is more worthy of Domestic user experience.