Good, but when will the final version eventually be released to the public?

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

Downloading now. Will keep this 64-bit on my main machine until release. Been waiting for this one. Yay.

Lol, this is TH. What would you expect?

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...

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.

Wonder if NVLDDMKM will disappear

The art team can work independently from the develeopment one... so new preety pictures and backgrounds can appear all the time.

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.

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!

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?

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

Windows looks like OSX and Linux more and more everyday

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.

more than 24hs late??

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?

I am just about ready to install this. Can't wait.

@eddieroolz
for the task bar you can make it look like vista, just right click it go to properties then click use small icons

Damn that was a fast install right there. LMAO "THUMBS UP"

New logoon wallpaper is what I was looking for since XP, can't wait to install.

Is anyone of you old enough to remember the Win95 craze which was very similar to what I observe now? And how Win95 turned out to be a crap?

MS might not be able to design and develop a really good OS but they surely do know how to make media fuzz and stir interest.

i'm really sick of eharing about windows 7 now .. this news site has become as much an advertisement for it as the site is a news site. I'm also of the midn that best widnows ever was XP with teh exception of the 64 bit version which i heard sucked big time, only reason i see for ever updateing is for 64 bit , I'l skip vista for this and perhaps 64 win 7 will avhe things right ... but for god sakes i don't need another TH adervtisement about win7 it wont afect my desicion to upgrade ( unless i get so sick of hearing it i decide to never upgrade on this comp LOL , which in that case TH win7 ad wil only effect my decision negatively) LOL

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.

P.S. and yes i'm old enough to remember the win 95 release, a small select group of open source geeks and nerds, said it was terrible. but the vast majority of the industry said it was the best thing that ever happened to computers. i really wish linux jockeys would quite tryign to rewrite history by saying that every one though win 95 was crap when it came out LOL cos seriopusly most every review on win 95 said this OS will make comptuers main stream ... and it DID !

and it took open source about 15 years to come up with an OS about as simple to use as 95 was back then

will try to install this one, downloading from iso****.com

Damn, literally just got done installing 7048.

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

Heh I like the word "screenshotted." Can we trademark that?

Who's the moron neg'ing every comment that promotes windows?

Purdy.

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

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

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




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.