Windows 7 News
The Windows 7 Taskforce
Nov 26th
Long Zheng – owner of istartedsomething.com blog started Taskforce initiative few months ago so users could contribute user interface defects present in Windows Vista and Mac OS X and to highlight them so the respective software giants fix them.
I don’t know about Apple but Microsoft took notice of the Taskforce website and submissions present on it. Many of the UI defects have been fixed in the current builds of Windows 7.
Long Zheng has now started a similar Taskforce for Windows 7. It is aimed at fixing the UI defects that might still be present in Windows 7. Users can submit the defects as well as rate them. Please head over and contribute to the Taskforce. 
Windows 7 latest build reported to have a new boot screen
Nov 25th
There has been no significant change in boot screens of Microsoft’s operating systems for the last few years. Same goes for Windows 7. The boot screen of Windows 7 builds that have been showed by Microsoft are pretty much same as Windows Vista and others but Winfuture.de has reported that a newer internal build 6954 has got a new boot screen which is significantly different from the previous boot screens.
It is also being speculated that the newer boot screen might be present in the earlier builds of Windows 7 but kept hidden. As per information Win Future has received, the new boot screen shows animated items/balls that come together to/to form Windows logo. It is not clear yet if the new boot screen will be present in the final version.
Microsoft is also thinking about giving the OEMs a choice of changing the boot screen to their requirement. It can of course be done through 3rd party softwares but I don’t think OEMs have been allowed to do it in the past.
Windows 7 might get Country Specific Editions
Nov 25th
Winfuture.de, a German website has reported that Microsoft is considering country specific editions of Windows 7.
In my opinion, releasing so many editions of Windows Vista was a big mistake. There should have been two versions only, just like Windows XP. If Microsoft actually decides to launch different edition for each country then it will confuse the customers even more. I don’t understand what good is a country specific version going to be…
Here’s the Bablefish translation of the Winfuture’s German language article. I don’t feel like editing the translation. It’s easily understood anyway.
Microsoft offers Windows Vista in altogether six variants. With Windows it will give probably again a whole set of editions, whose name is to obviously at least partly change to Vista however to 7.
Only recently we could report that it will give possibly again a “Professional” version mentioned. Now a further detail is added. Obviously Microsoft Windows 7 wants to adapt the names of the editions not only optically to the respective region, but also.
The data our according to sources there is to be designations in different national languages apart from the English names for the different Windows editions also. Therefore Windows became 7 starters, Home basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise and Ultimate in Germany for example differently are called than in the USA and other English-language markets.
Still the considerations are to have been led not to end, were called it opposite us. At present different possibilities were discussed. There are not concrete examples to call for the time being thus. By an adjustment of the edition names to the respective national language the customers are to be able to recognize in the future probably better, which variant is suitable for them best.