Windows 7 Milestone 1 Ultimate Edition is alive, kicking and as real as they get! Although it's but one year away from the moment Windows Vista hit the shelves, and despite being in the final stages of development of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, Microsoft is also building Windows 7.
At this point in time, Windows 7 is being dogfooded inhouse by Microsoft. However, the successor of Windows Vista was also shipped in an early stage to a select pool of the Redmond company's key partners.
On January 24, you were able to feast your eyes on the first ever leaked screenshots from Windows 7 Ultimate edition version 6.1 (Build 6519.1.x86fre.winmain.071220-1525), courtesy of ThinkNext. Because of numerous
accusations that the images had been tampered with, and were fake, the Chinese blog posted the video embedded at the bottom of this article. Yes, this is Windows 7 Milestone 1 Ultimate edition 6519.1.071220-1525.
"I was about to share something interesting about Windows 7 in my last post, Windows 7: The Real Thing. The ISO image, installation, evaluation and the screenshots are all real. I mean there is no Photoshop or anything like that involved," reads a fragment from ThinkNext. "I’m not a person who makes himself complacent by faking something hot, neither will I be unhappy if someone denies the real information I posted. I don’t mean to draw much attention, especially from those suckers. When I post images, there is Photoshop, when a piece of video, there is something called Premiere, or DreamWorks?"
In the video, you will be able to see the boot screen of Windows 7, as well as the desktop and a presentation of the new Windows Media Center that comes as a component of the next iteration of the Windows operating system. Users that are running Windows Media Center under Vista Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs will undoubtedly notice differences when it comes to the WMC running in the Ultimate edition of Windows 7. While the interface is approximately the same, the text size has changed, and so has the number of categories.
Windows 7 M1 comes, as all software under development from Microsoft, with an expiration date. Windows 7 M1 is time-bombed for May 2008. This only confirms the fact that the Redmond company will deliver Windows 7 Milestone 2 by May of this year.
"I don’t think there is anything wrong, disappointing or weird that Windows 7 Milestone 1 isn’t greatly different from Vista. It’s only Milestone 1 so lots of code may be reused. Besides, even we can’t see much visual changes (say, user interfaces), that doesn’t mean Win7 internals don’t change greatly. Here from the release notes, I read: 'the software will stop running on May 7, 2008. You may not receive any other notice. You may not be able to access data used with the software when it stops running'," added ThinkNext.
dedicated to all the n00bz,that accused the site for posting fake ss!
hmmmm
By MozyMan on 26.01.2008 - 02:01
still a bit sketchy atm i think, i mean most of the places that showed "windows 7
ultimate" could perhaps have been changed, i'm not sure, and media center did say it was
vista...
thank you
By londonfire on 26.01.2008 - 03:01
first i would like to thank you for showing me what windows vista looks like. i own the
os if you want me to belive it is windows 7 send me the iso image at londonfire93gmail.com
still fake
By mark on 26.01.2008 - 03:01
right, because it's impossible to use a resource editor to change a few bitmaps in vista
and then make a video of it. i am so sure that it would say "windows 7 ultimate", lol.
if this was real the guy would have leaked the iso itself. fake screenshots, now fake
videos? what is up for next week?
Not what we want
By Dan on 26.01.2008 - 04:01
more than likely windows 7 will look a lot if not completely like vista. most people
like the way vista looks so why change it? what we really want to know about windows 7 is
it's performance vs vista. there needs to be better performance especially for laptops.
these screen shots and videos do nothing but create skepticism.
Most likely fake
By suihrygbhe on 26.01.2008 - 04:01
like that can be easilly faked wouldent take much i dont believe that shit for
a second
confused
By inteliboy on 26.01.2008 - 08:01
why when camera zooms the date is 1985-2006 ?? is that build that old??
now i know
By intyeliboy on 26.01.2008 - 08:01
after consideration i must admit that is is vista with edited resources because the mdate
will be 2007 or 8
what i would expect
By Spider on 26.01.2008 - 11:01
to be honest, microsoft always start off with bits of the old os, and so could well be
all true, i guess the only real difference so far would be the kernel, and for now just
using the old vista gui to test it. i am sure that will all change as they update it over
the next year or so. hope so, as vista was a step backwards.
Remember First Build of Longhorn
By AMH on 26.01.2008 - 13:01
the same thing, i believe this is true not fake, if you remember the first few builds in
2002 of windows longhorn it looked very like xp, and then after few builds the gui started
to look different.
no difference will be with windows 7, it will be base on
windows vista by the first few builds and later on the gui will take another level.
Clearly fake
By anon on 26.01.2008 - 13:01
windows 7 doesn't have composite support yet so why is aero glass on?
Sorry, its fake
By fake on 26.01.2008 - 20:01
yup, its fake, look at copyright date, 2007? the actual winmin was dated 2008. and still
is and is version 7 not 6.1.
Not fake but not the real 7
By svartfgl on 26.01.2008 - 20:01
imo. in this stage this not have to be fake but i have heard that the new "vienna 7"
should have a brand new coded core and absolutely redesigned from vista? but i can have
wrong // excuse me for my bad eng.
good grief, just stop
By mark on 27.01.2008 - 05:01
they should change the name of this site to crapnews if all they are going to do is post
fake screenshots, videos and other false info about windows 7.
is if fast?
By bozo on 27.01.2008 - 07:01
is it faster than the windows 95 i'm using?
What is this video for?
By Sturmeh on 28.01.2008 - 07:01
as far as i can see, it's all about showing the windows "7" as opposed to windows
"vista" on the login/logoff/taskmanager screen.
absolutely no new features
are evident, and the media centre is shown which is also present in it's entirety in
vista.
it's not hard to change that screen that is used for
"login/logoff/taskmanager" but lets assume it's real, can you show us any new features,
at all?
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By degheh on 26.01.2008 - 00:01