Microsoft reveals 36 changes to Windows 7

Microsoft Corp. today revealed some of the changes it has made to Windows 7 since it issued a public beta more than a month ago.

In a long post to the company's "Engineering Windows 7" blog, senior program manager Chaitanya Sareen touted three dozen improvements and modifications to the new operating system that developers have slipped into the under-construction "release candidate," which Microsoft executives have said will be the next milestone on the road to final code.

Sareen did not disclose any new information about a timetable for wrapping up the release candidate (RC), however.

Among the changes Sareen highlighted were 10 affecting the Window 7 desktop, four to the operating system's new touch-sensitive features, another four to the Control Panel and eight to Windows Media Player.