Windows 7 Beta users being asked to get back to Vista

Windows 7 Beta users being asked to get back to Vista

Microsoft has asked users who are currently on Windows 7 Beta to move back to Vista so that they can test out the upcoming release candidate version of the Windows 7 OS.

The company said in a blog post that most users would upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 so it is better to test the migration process from Vista rather than Windows 7 Beta.

Microsoft stated:

A big part of the beta process is making sure we get as much “real world” coverage of scenarios and experiences as possible and monitor the telemetry of those experience overall. One of the most challenging areas to engineer is the process of upgrading one release of Windows to another. When you think about it, it is the one place where at one time we need to run a ton of code to basically “know” everything about a system before performing the upgrade. During the development of Windows 7 we routinely test hundreds of original OEM images from Windows Vista and upgrade them and then run automated tests validating the upgrade’s success. We also test thousands of applications and many thousands of devices as they too move through the upgrade process.

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