Introducing Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 22.1.2008
That's right! Windows Vista, SP1 or no SP1, and Windows XP SP3 are nothing more than old news. Microsoft has started shipping an early development milestone of Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista.
At the end of the past week, the Redmond company was confirmed to have served Windows 7 Milestone 1, exclusively to key partners. At that time, Microsoft remained completely mute on Windows 7, not confirming and not denying, in fact not commenting at all on the evolution of the next iteration of Windows. But with Windows 7 Milestone 1 available outside of Redmond, the first details about the release have already been leaked.
It is clear that Steven codename Translucency Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, will not be all that happy about the information about Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1 available to the public. The details were posted on the Neowin forum and only contained references to the Windows 7 M1, no screenshots. In this context, it is quite hard to verify the validity of the data, so you will simply have to take it with a grain of salt. However, the report does feature a high level of consistency when it comes down to additional references to Windows 7 M1.
Well, the first Milestone of Windows 7 Build 6.1.6519.1 is apparently in need of serious tunning when it comes down to integrating with new machines. It is in this regard further proof that this is indeed an early development milestone with inherent issues. From the get-go, the main problems revolved around diver support.
"One my primary machine, it asked for my SATA driver (never happened when installing Vista, as my drives were set as IDE in BIOS). After adding the driver from my USB thumb drive it would finally install. It didn’t boot after first restart, however. On my laptop it installed perfectly, but with no driver support for the video card. After numerous tries I gave up in the end, so Aero is now left in the dark," revealed Steven Parker, Group: Administrator, citing the original post of the Neowin member.
At this point in time, there is nothing new to report in therms of graphical user interface. Apparently, the Redmond company has implemented Widows Aero on top of Windows 7 to serve as the GUI. "The GUI, as much of you have guessed, is very much like Vista. I don't know if once the right video card driver is in place whether there will be flashy stuffs to surprise me. The system is very responsive, using barely 480MB of memory after boot," Parker added.
Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1 comes with a revamped Windows Explorer, new XAML fonts (Composite Fonts), and a standalone application dubbed the XPS Viewer. The operating system also brings to the table a revamped boot screen, that apparently is also reminiscent of Windows Vista.
"Gadgets are now integrated into explorer. You can right click on desktop and select 'Add Gadget' or 'Hide Gadget'. There is a new gadget called 'Windows Media Center' that displays now playing information from the WMC. On the same menu, 'Display' is added above 'Personalization' which gives you direct access to display DPI settings. The page is much more polished than the one in Vista. The start menu features a pin besides each item. Clicking on it toggles pinning/unpinning the item. Search in explorer is now states where you search within (usually being within the folder, as in Vista). You can now, however, adjust the size of the search box," Parker stated.
Microsoft is but a week away from celebrating Vista's first year anniversary since the operating system hit the shelves. At the same time, Windows 7 is apparently planned for late 2009 or early 2010, with Milestone dropping in April/May 2008, M3 in the second half of this year, and the first beta sometime in early 2009. Of course that Microsoft has failed to offer any official confirmation of the work being done with Windows 7.
"Highlights include 'network aware', with improved connection tools and detections. It will have the ability to detect which network you're in and switch your settings and devices accordingly; With Live account, you can carry your IE settings and favorites with you; Gadget data caching; New Calculator, Paint, and Wordpad using WPF; install to desktop in 10 mins with only 1 reboot; instant streaming; better battery mileage, etc. All descriptions are scenario-based, so what will actually turn up is still yet to know," Parker concluded.
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the fact that the gadget handling mechanism is being built into explorer is a very bad
sign imo. it seems that instead of moving away from bloat and having explorer try to do
too much (which is a major killer of windows speed and stability) ms is determined to load
on the whip cream and nuts where it's completely unnecessary and make windows worse than
it already is (too bad...vista had some great ideas implemented, it is just way too top
heavy).
if ms ever wants to get serious about making windows an os that serious
propeller heads can appreciate fondly (and every day users will stop cursing) they're
gonna have to hire somebody that actually knows something about operating system
philosophy (and i mean knows, not just has an opinion like ms seems to).
basically, in win7, if explorer crashes, now the gadgets go, too? the sidebar is already
a bit like a house of cards balanced on a paper clip - merging it into explorer is just
asking for trouble (and doing away with any interest i'll ever have in using gadgets -
not that it matters to ms or anyone else).
explorer needs to be ditched and ms
needs to realize that merging the window and file manger into one program (starting with
win95) was nearly the single most idiotic thing ms has ever done in regard to windows.
why they ever thought it was a good idea for the user interface to stall and become
unresponsive when there is heavy disk i/o just boggles me. windows will *never* feel as
light and responsive as linux or osx until ms gets a grip on the fact that the best os's
keep the file and window managers separate (and for good reason). win3.x was like this
and, like it or hate it, that was a major advantage. i remember how people complained
early on that win95 stuttered and things stopped responding at times - thanks, ms, for
deciding that a good 'experience' is designing the os specifically so that the user
constantly waits for it instead of the other way around. :(
so the early
previews of win7 showed a text only system that was super fast and used very little
memory. great. now, instead of developing a decent gui manager to work *with* that,
they're yet again going to rape the core by merging the gui system into it and start down
the same road to a sluggish, heavy feeling os.
i can't help but wonder if
windows 8 will just be one big explorer.exe and the 8 will represent the numer of gigs it
takes on the drive and in ram...
i'm not a windows or ms hater by any means -
but someone has to call shenanigans on ms for perpetuating a piss poor os design
philosophy just because they aren't brave enough to admit they got off on the wrong foot
when making the leap away from 16bit.
i have to wonder how much smaller,
lighter, and faster windows might be if ms didn't need to have all these
'optimizations' to help improve the performance of poor, old, overloaded explorer.
microsoft has to do something to make up for the egg they laid with vista. hopefully 7
will have a little more zip in it than vista. it would make sense to also remake
explorer, fast, intuitive, smart...but thats expecting to much from a company that seems
fragmented and out of touch with the public.
forgive me, but why does an early windows 7 have a build number starting with 6? if
windows 7 will actually be 6.1, then i'll be curious to learn how major or minor the
improvements proposed over vista will be, especially since win2000 is 5.0 and xp is 5.1.
can i have a download link for the milestone 1?
i think 7 will be the final release. the builds until 7 will be 6. releases. sure vista
was actually a 5 sumthing release and thye just bumped the build number upto to 6000
can i have a download link for the milestone 1? mee too
yeah, may i get link for download?
can i have a download link windows 7 milestone 1 build 6.1.6519.1
i'm almost completely agree with you except the "rape the core by merging the gui
system into it and start down the same road to a sluggish, heavy feeling os."
actually it was the opposite. since over 90% of windows bsod crashes was, lo and behold,
caused by video drivers. so starting from vista the graphic subsystem has been separated
from the core system, that way if the graphic system crashed it could be restarted without
the dreadful "stop"/"irq_not_equal_zero" bosd errors.
it did hammer the
speed, but also increase stability. the 3d effect of aero is more like a bonus side-effect
that make the stability an easier sell... aero is not just an eye candy you know?
i also think the integration of gadget into explorer is a bad idea. gadget has been
known to resource leak due to programmer's error, mostly javascript. unless ms was to do
something about it, it's just another disaster waiting to happen.
i see where you're going. i read somewhere on ms' site that the majority of crashes
were due to poor audio drivers and thus why the audio subsystem was removed from the
kernel and why hardware audio acceleration was disposed of within directx. either way it
certainly does seem that driver crashes are far less prevalent (at least for me) in vista.
i'm sure removing the multimedia in general was not only helpful for kernel stability
but also gave ms some leverage in applying some of the drm measures in vista.
however i still have a concern with explorer trying to do too much - partially for
stability reasons but also for responsiveness. it's been my experience (as anecdotal as
it may be) that windows seems to be the most sluggish and least responsive feeling o/s
among the 'major' players (windows, osx, linux, unix). ubuntu on my 4 year old tablet
feels much more responsive than windows xp even though i'm running tracker, etc. in
ubuntu. most notable is that during heavy drive access ubuntu's windows and other gui
components don't hesitate, stall, or become completely unresponsive. i'm convinced
(based on a fair amount of reading and talking to various software engineers over the
years) that is because the file and window managers are separate entities, regardless of
what ever other issues may be a play (ubuntu is installed with defaults while windows is
well tweaked and lightened, so it's about as fair a comparison as i can make between the
two).
on my desktop i am having the same experience as you in that vista has
displayed, for me, significantly less driver crash problems (none i can think of since i
removed my creative audigy 4 and settled on an nvidia driver that meets my needs). the
impression i get is that the manufacturers have no choice but to clean up their drivers
and not count on windows being as lenient and accommodating as it once was.
gents,
reading from above. what percent of the general user population really knows
and clearly understands what xml, sata, ide, bios, 16 bit, irq, video drivers, directx
mean? the count of those who understand any of it in depth is probably less than 1%.
hardware will improve, xp will disappear, vista will grow and then it too will fade away.
it does not matter what you or i use, like, or say. the ms consumer os is not made for
people like you. you are a tiny tiny slice of thier worldwide market. it makes
absolutely no difference what any of our opinions are or what any of us say. the larger
market will drive the software, and you and i are not that market. the world wants
intuitive, easy to use, warm and fuzzy software like "surface", and due to the size of
that market thats where it will go, without question. embrace what you choose, but my 72
years says you best go with the flow, because you are not going to change it.
all these folks badmouthing vista. try the 64 bit. it rocks. way better than xp, hands
down. my opinion of course. but i do speak with some xperience.
btw, you might try
renaming the file from .iso to .wim and installing using waik. just a thought.
neb
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By NotSomeoneElse on 23.01.2008 - 02:01