Post-Beta Windows 7 Build Leaked With New IE8 332
CWmike writes "A post-beta version of Windows 7, Build 7022, leaked to Internet file-sharing sites also includes an updated version of IE8, according to searches at several BitTorrent trackers. With Microsoft halting new Windows 7 beta downloads on Tuesday, and blocking all downloads as of noon (EST) today, users are again turning to illegal sources to get the new operating system."
Post Beta? (Score:5, Insightful)
Post-beta is really relative. I consider all windows OSes beta until 2 years after the initial release.
There have been a lot of leaks of Windows 7 (Score:5, Insightful)
Who's leaking the builds?
Either way, Microsoft are getting a lot of good free press from them so far, I don't think they'll really have to worry about piracy cutting into their profits too much.
Re:There have been a lot of leaks of Windows 7 (Score:4, Insightful)
Most likely intentional. It gets people using it if they think they're doing something to stick it to Microsoft, while MSoft is in control the whole time.
Re:WTF. (Score:1, Insightful)
Probably the same reason it was done with Chicago/Windows 95, Windows 98, Whistler/Windows XP, Cairo/Windows NT 4 (the name spawned through like nearly a decade lol), and other operating systems. Simply to seee how they operate and know what the next incarnation of software is heading into.
Be it good or bad.
Re:Does it include the "Versions"? (Score:2, Insightful)
I was wondering the same thing, but if you're willing to go to that extent just to get around the ridiculous limitations, you honestly might as well just pirate the damn thing.
Re:Turning to illegal sources? (Score:5, Insightful)
For my 2c, XP is a very well rounded operating system - part of the reason MS is finding it so hard to move people from it.
Re:Lunix sucks! (Score:4, Insightful)
Lunix just isn't ready for the desktop yet. It may be ready for the web servers that you nerds use to distribute your TRON fanzines and personal Dungeons and Dragons web-sights across the world wide web, but the average computer user isn't going to spend months learning how to use a CLI and then hours compiling packages so that they can get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with, especially not when they already have a Windows machine that does its job perfectly well and is backed by a major corporation, as opposed to Lunix which is only supported by a few unemployed nerds living in their mother's basement somewhere. The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.
Ironically, this post is almost on-topic for once, given the fact that the article is about the upcoming Windows release. Too bad it's posted in most of the commentaries where it IS off-topic.
By the way, I've never heard of Lunix. Would you care to explain what it is?
Re:Does it include the "Versions"? (Score:5, Insightful)
Secondly, this is a major lock in for MS. If by using Firefox, VLC, and a third-party game you can exceede your app limit, but if you use IE, Windows Media Player and some built-in Windows game, you don't. This is especially worrying in the developing countries where this will be sold.
"Leak 2.0" the new e-marketing campaign package! (Score:5, Insightful)
Get a fscking clue here people, This "leak" is a marketing project from the word go.
Step 1: Build a virtually-nonfunctional but highly stable show-off OS with all of the important (and wildly unstable) compatibility turned off.
Step 2: Leak said software as your next great release and bemoan the loss of your great surprise unveiling.
Step 3: Pay lots of reviewers to fill comment sites about how terrific the fantastic OS is before most have ever seen it.
Step 4: Enjoy a *positive* rollout on the heals of your abomination of a release called 'Vista' and that horseshit "not vista" campaign that followed.
Step 5: Profit
here's why (Score:5, Insightful)
I still cannot fathom why people scramble to get the latest copy of a Windows OS way before it's really even declared "ready."
Mostly because it's going to be the dominant OS for the next 5+ years and maybe, just maybe, they want to get familiar with it as soon as possible.
Windows still has about 88% of the market. That means, on average, out of 100 people, 1 uses linux, 9 use MacOS, 2 use another OS and 88 use Windows.
Think about that for a moment, 88% vs 1%. The question should be, why do we care about the latest build of anything else?
Re:Lunix sucks! (Score:4, Insightful)
Gentoo is actually a distro I recommend sometimes to people who are interested in installing Linux on their computer for the first time, and it's not because I'm some MS shrill who is trying to scare people away from Linux. ;-)
But if you have someone who has used Linux on someone else's computer or a school computer or something so that they are not scared of the command line and are have become pretty sure this is something that they'll actually be using rather than just installing because they want to try it and think they might like it, and they are willing to put in a little bit of effort, Gentoo is a really good choice. (That's a lot of 'if's, but Gentoo isn't exactly your typical newbie distro.)
I'm a big Gentoo fan (well, to the extent I'm a fan of any OS, which is not very much), because I think it is a solid distribution, but the main selling point for someone who can and is willing to deal with it is that in my experience, the documentation has just been outstanding. It's been a bit since I have really done any adminning of my own Linux box so this may be out of date, but I would do searches for Linux problems without specifying I was running Gentoo, and it seemed that half the time I would hit something on the Gentoo site anyway.
Re:MS Marketing Droids working at 150% Capacity (Score:5, Insightful)
Like being an all around prick to complete strangers on Slashdot?
Re:Post Beta? (Score:4, Insightful)
Yep, that's why I stick with *nix. 30 years of pounding out the bugs and you get a good, solid OS. How old is Vista/Windows 7?
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Re:Lunix sucks! (Score:4, Insightful)
The number of times I've had to use a CLI to fix something in Linux is about the same as the number of times I've had to use the Registry Editor to fix something in Windows.
So I suppose I can switch your argument around a bit: The day that you can have a problem in Windows and can go to a forum and not get "Start > Run... > regedit" as the standard answer is that day that it might be ready for users.
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Re:Big deal (Score:3, Insightful)
No, you are incorrect. Questioning the reason behind and logic of downloading a pirated operating system is entirely on-topic in a thread regarding the downloading of pirated operating systems. Piss-poor moderators and microsoft cheerleaders modding that question down is rather inexcusable. But then, since the practice of pirating that particular software is indefensible, they have no recourse but to try and bury the question.
This post, of course, is off topic and should be modded down. While someone with mod points today takes care of that for me, I'm going to go meta-moderate. I haven't been doing enough of that lately.