Windows 7“功能完成”意味着什么？

Win7之家（ www.win7china.com）：Windows 7“功能完成”意味着什么？

 去年秋天，当微软发布Windows 7 M3时，该公司主管曾告诉测试者直到Windows 7 Beta才会有全功能版本。

如今，Windows Beta已经被泄露，并且微软也将在CES上公布该版本，也是时候履行承诺。

很多下载试用了Windows 7 Beta的人都称该版本很稳定了，但是由于与M3相比改进不多，因此显得有点无聊。

这并不让人惊讶，因为微软旨在将Windows 7打造成为Vista本该成为的那样，更小，更快。当然，还得有不少视觉效果，比如Ribbon菜单和触摸支持等。但不管怎么样，Windows 7并无法与Vista拉开多大差距，尽管微软一直在强调Windows 7是个大版本号。

尽管Beta版已经是“全功能版”，但这不意味着最终正式版也是如此。通常，微软所称的“全功能版”代表软硬件制造商已经可以测试了，但并不是说用户界面和设计都已经完成了。

至于Windows 7的最终用户协议，我也认为并非最终版本，在正式版发布前肯定还会进行大修改，另外，我也很怀疑Windows 7是否真的会只有Home Premium, Professional 和Ultimate3个版本。

附部分原文：

Last fall, when Microsoft officially took the wraps off Milestone 3 of Windows 7, company execs told testers that a true, feature-complete Windows 7 release wouldn’t hit until Beta 1.

Now that Beta 1 — which the Windows team built on December 12, 2008 — has started leaking on torrents and is poised to make its public debut at the Consumer Electronics show, it’s time to revisit that “feature-complete” promise.

Many individuals who’ve downloaded Build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 have noted that the Beta 1 build is solid but also somewhat boring. It seems to offer little beyond the Milestone 3 build, they’ve said.

That’s not too surprising, given the Windows team’s post-Vista mission of making Windows 7 the operating system that Vista should have been. It needs to be smaller, tighter and faster. If it also includes some eye candy, like Ribbon menus and touch-screen support, great. But from all accounts, it isn’t supposed to be a radical departure from Vista (even though the Redmondians are continuing to tag it as a “major” new release).
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