Close on the heels of its last month release of nearly three dozen fixes to the newest Release Candidate version of the OS, Microsoft has now made new revisions to its Windows 7 operating system, scheduled for a late this year or early next year release.

Out of Microsoft's list of new revisions, some changes are performance-related, while others are merely ornamental. Among these changes, Microsoft has added a close button to icons appearing on the list view of the task bar, which allows users to view and close windows more rapidly.

Yet another fix aims at eliminating the problem related to a situation in which task bar settings are not saved in case Windows is not shut down. This hiccup can cause quite a few errors - like the shifting of the desktop locations by the task bar when a session is started again.

The change for touch-screen users includes extension of Windows 7's support for multi-touch zooming in applications to the Windows Explorer graphical file manager. Other changes to Explorer would simplify routing around the Windows desktop and freeing up more on-screen real estate.

In a blog post that disclosed the changes, a Microsoft Windows engineering team member said the revisions had resulted from the company's keenness to "gather telemetry from the large number of people running the Beta full time."