This time its for real. It should be percolating the various bays soon enough. I'll get some screenshots up in a few.

Few notes with this build though:

It has an expiration date of May 7th 2008
The build string is 6519.winmain.071220-1525 (which iirc is December 20th 2007)
It is basically Windows Vista SP1 with some minor tweaks.


-Sonic


Edit by Grav!ty: Links removed.

Thanks for posting about the leak sonic
I am looking forward to your screen shots



Here is one i found on-line & wanted to get it up here.

About Windows



Looks like it already expired

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Here are 2 more I found

ATM the show all Control Panel look


Control Panel Applications section

Thanks for posting about this Brian. We have been aware it's available from a number of sites for a while already and the recent downloads do seem to be of a genuine build.

I've had to edit the links out of your post because as a Microsoft featured community we can't be seen to be promoting what is essentially an illegal download.

Grav!ty wrote:

Thanks for posting about this Brian. We have been aware it's available from a number of sites for a while already and the recent downloads do seem to be of a genuine build. I've had to edit the links out of your post because as a Microsoft featured community we can't be seen to be promoting what is essentially an illegal download.

Sorry about that Graham, I didn't mean it to be a warez post. Just a clarification though, I don't think it was public available until this week, it was just a few select groups (ThinkNext/TG Daily) that had it.

Screenshots to be coming in my next post though (probably before I'm done for the night). Hopefully this will resuscitate the forums a bit (since its been a bit quiet since the release of Vista)

Great work guys!!! Everyone remembers when PROnetworks was the first with Longhorn and Vista download information and screenshots for every build (and back to Whistler, really), and seeing this this ramps up the excitement level once again.

i'm looking forward to reading about the development of windows 7 on this forum just like your fantastic coverage of vista keep it up guys

Thanks Leo

I searched & found a few more that I want to add that I didn't see in Vista


Defrag from Control Panel, looks rather plain... again


Software Explorer


Software Explorer

And a video.

Nice screen shots guys, I have a few too but not enough posts yet.

One thing I discovered is that if you format your flash drive in Windows 7 it is no good anymore in any other windows OS

I managed to mess-up 3 x 4GB flash drives doing this.
Wont open in XP, Vista x86 or Vista x64, now I get errors to return the flash drive to the manufacturer

I even reformatted 2 of them again using the restore defaults button in Windows 7, still no good... they will open in Windows 7 though