Even if the Microsoft Windows 7 Beta was a solid release, testers have been barraging Microsoft with feedback on how to make it even better than it currently is. In response, the giant software company has made public some details of how the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) will probably look like. The RC is expected to arrive as early as April.

In a Thursday post to the Engineering Windows 7 blog, Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, said the RC changes have taken into account the testers’ feedback. Basically, there are minor adjustments that reflect Microsoft’s desire to give users more control than they’ve had in previous versions of Windows.

In addition to altering User Account Control in Windows 7 to address security issues raised by Windows 7 beta testers, the Windows 7 RC will improve audio reliability, add support for FAT32 hard drives and bring native support for .MOV files, the video format used by digital cameras, to Windows Media Player. Furthermore, the beta version does not let the newly installed programs automatically attach themselves to the taskbar, leaving that decision to the user.

Basically, the company wants to give users more taskbar space, but testers asked for even more room. Therefore, Microsoft decided to open up between 24 percent and 39 percent more icons before the taskbar scrolls. Furthermore, the flashing open window effect in the Windows 7 RC is more noticeable now, as it will be colored orange and flash seven times. Microsoft has also added a new overlay icon that shows when there is a local connection without Internet access. It remains to be seen if these changes will please testers.