Windows 7 Build 7057 Leaked, Screenshotted

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7:40 PM - March 13, 2009 by Marcus Yam

With Windows 7 being the new hotness that could make things spiffy for many new (and some old) computers whenever it ships, every new build just adds to the anticipation.

Making its way through the intertubes as we speak is Windows 7 build 7057. Rejoice -- Microsoft is making progress! Deciphering the file name of the disc image indicates that this build was compiled on March 5, 2009, reports Neowin.

Interestingly enough, the About Windows screen indicates that this evaluation copy is good for a year, expiring in March 2010. Those who run this unfinished version of Windows 7 would be assured that the final version, perhaps by then on retail shelves, will be available before the evaluation license expires.

New background for Welcome and Shut DownRelease Candidate EULA wordage

As a better indication than anything else that the Release Candidate is just around the corner is the EULA that refers to the build 7057 as “Release Candidate 1.”

At this point we’d expect that development on Windows 7 is more about fine tuning and bug squashing rather than new features, but there are a few things that SuperSite picked up as new, such as new desktop themes and user account images.

New user picturesMake Windows 7 themetastic!

Image credits: Neowin and SuperSite.

Source : Tom's Hardware US

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raffish315 03/14/2009 1:57 AM
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Good, but when will the final version eventually be released to the public?

skine 03/14/2009 2:45 AM
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Quote :Though run this unfinished version of Windows 7 would be assured that the final version, perhaps even for retail, will be available before the evaluation license expires.

What? I know that the inclusion of new user account icons is exciting, but please, contain yourself enough to write coherently.

Curnel_D 03/14/2009 2:55 AM
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Downloading now. Will keep this 64-bit on my main machine until release. Been waiting for this one. Yay.

Curnel_D 03/14/2009 2:56 AM
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skine :
What? I know that the inclusion of new user account icons is exciting, but please, contain yourself enough to write coherently.


Lol, this is TH. What would you expect?

smfrazz 03/14/2009 3:00 AM
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That's the big question. My take...is well before the holiday season. They would benefit from a boost in sales with new HW bundles for the holiday season, recession or not. I just installed it today and it does seem more stable. Whatever they've done to the IP stack is making my internet speed increase significantly according to www.speedtest.net. From a typical 20,000 kbps to 48,500 kbps for Comcast. Go figure...

NuclearShadow 03/14/2009 3:28 AM
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I have a feeling this isn't a real "leak" With such a good reputation for Windows 7 already Microsoft has to keep our interests and bait us with things like this.

akhammer 03/14/2009 3:30 AM
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Wonder if NVLDDMKM will disappear

wavetrex 03/14/2009 3:54 AM
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The art team can work independently from the develeopment one... so new preety pictures and backgrounds can appear all the time.

Shnur 03/14/2009 4:10 AM
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Yeah, this year it'd be awesome... Windows 7 is now more advanced at Beta than Vista was at RC... mainly since there's less compatibility problems. Downloading the 64-bit, crossing fingers for a better build than the 7000.

Milleman 03/14/2009 4:55 AM
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What's new under the sun? Nothing. Looks like Windows, so why the hype then? I'm sure this is a Microsoft intentional leak so people won't forget to buy Windows... again!

kewl munky 03/14/2009 5:16 AM
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So my original beta I downloaded will still expire in july or when ever it was? Or can I update to this build from my beta build and then it lasts until march 2010?

seboj 03/14/2009 5:34 AM
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NuclearShadow :
I have a feeling this isn't a real "leak" With such a good reputation for Windows 7 already Microsoft has to keep our interests and bait us with things like this.



Do you honestly think that any of the "leaks" haven't been fully controlled by MS?

cruiseoveride 03/14/2009 6:18 AM
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liemfukliang 03/14/2009 6:39 AM
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It is not the build that the official blog mention about control panel jump list. The 7057 build still doesn't have control panel jump list.

RicardoK 03/14/2009 7:13 AM
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more than 24hs late?? :)

eddieroolz 03/14/2009 7:55 AM
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I'm not sure about others, but I'd really really like to have the Windows Vista skin available for use as well...not all of us have a bad impression of Vista. They have the Windows 2000 look, why not Vista?

truehighroller 03/14/2009 8:13 AM
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I am just about ready to install this. Can't wait.

Anonymous 03/14/2009 8:39 AM
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@eddieroolz
for the task bar you can make it look like vista, just right click it go to properties then click use small icons

truehighroller 03/14/2009 8:40 AM
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Damn that was a fast install right there. LMAO "THUMBS UP"

lutel 03/14/2009 9:00 AM
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New logoon wallpaper is what I was looking for since XP, can't wait to install.

Anonymous 03/14/2009 9:10 AM
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demonhorde665 03/14/2009 9:12 AM
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demonhorde665 03/14/2009 9:20 AM
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demonhorde665 03/14/2009 9:26 AM
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ohim 03/14/2009 9:37 AM
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and it took open source about 15 years to come up with an OS about as simple to use as 95 was back then :)

artursz 03/14/2009 10:38 AM
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afrobacon 03/14/2009 10:48 AM
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Damn, literally just got done installing 7048.

From what I've seen in my journeys so far, good job M$.

exfileme 03/14/2009 2:16 PM
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Heh I like the word "screenshotted." Can we trademark that?

TheCapulet 03/14/2009 3:59 PM
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Who's the moron neg'ing every comment that promotes windows?

tipoo 03/14/2009 4:37 PM
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Purdy.

Can someone tell me if they reworked the defragmenter in 7 though?

n3ard3ath 03/14/2009 4:46 PM
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TheCapulet :
Who's the moron neg'ing every comment that promotes windows?



Me. Here's some good Win95 'promotion'.

http://video.google.ca/videosearch [...] =en&emb=0#

demonhorde665 :
are you smoking crack .. win 95 was actually oen of MS's better Oses gratned they did improve it for 98 se but i would hardly call it crap , win 95 is after all the SOLE reason why windows dominates the OS market sayign they can't design a good OS is also retarded. they set out tod esign an OS that every one including your grandma coulde ventually learn to be comfortable with, I would say they acheived thier goal in general that is why computers became so main stream , with out MS's OSs the main stream explosion of Comptuers would not have happened , because the simple fact is MOST consumers want thier products as simple (inter face wise) as possible .. and MS did that win win 95 as well as win 98 and XP, cant say that vista has been as user freindly though cos i ahve heard driver night mare stories with it. point being saying that MS can't design a good OS is about the dumbest thing i ever heard any one say ... perhaps i'd take you as credible if you had said they arn't good at designing a stable secure OS, becuae windows has enver been the most stable or secure .. but design wise it is Definitely more user freindly than other peoples efforts usually , and from that perspective i'd say MS usually achieves thier target goal with OS design.



Reading you without even taking the actual meaning of the whole thing into account is enough to notice you're the one smoking crack. Then, after taking the meaning of the 'words' into account, we clearly see you're not only a crack smoker, but a ignorant crack smoker. Windows 95 was the worst Microsoft OS for it's time after ME. XP is the best. And what you're trying to articulate to convince 95 was the best OS out there is ludicrous. Not because 95 was the first MS real multithreading OS that it was the best thing out there. BeOS was actually superior. MS dominated cause of business and marketing moves, and not because of a superior technicality.


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