Chaitanya Sareen provided a list of some of the changes that have been made in Windows 7 Beta in preparation for the Release Candidate (RC), explaining as follows:

"This blog post talks about a few of the improvements that will be in our Release Candidate (RC) based upon customer feedback. There are many under the hood changes (bug fixes, compatibility fixes, performance improvements, and improvements) across the entire dev team that we just don’t have room to discuss here, but we thought you’d enjoy a taste of some changes made by three of our feature teams: Core User Experience, Find & Organize and Devices & Media. The comments in this article come from a variety of verbatim sources, with identifying information withheld."

The improvements have been made under the following subject descriptions:

• Desktop Experience
• Touch
• Networking
• Control Panel
• Windows Media Player
• Device Stage
• Sound UX
• Windows Explorer and Libraries
• Performance