Windows 7 Build 7004

[Decode]

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blog...ta-build-7004/

Scott Wylie, Microsoft's New Zealand Director of Development and Platform Strategy, wrote today on his blog about his experience installing a pre-beta build of Windows 7 on his home laptop.

It is interesting to note that the pre-beta build of Windows 7 installed on his home laptop seems to be build 7004, which if the term "pre-beta" is accurate would indicate that Windows 7 beta one will be some build number higher than 7004. On the blogosphere the general consensus has been that beta one would be build 7000.0.081212-1400 which the following screen shot from Scott's laptop could indicate is inaccurate.



According to Windows 7 News the build shown above is 7004.0.081203-1830 which would indicate that this build was created on December 3rd at 18:30, this build could be from the Release Candidate (RC) branch. We therefore could still see build 7000.0.081212-1400 as the beta which would have been built on December 12th at 14:00.

As I quoted James O'Neill (Microsoft) saying earlier today, “Those who know aren’t talking and those who talk don’t know” .

Earlier today the Windows 7 homepage included a link to download the Windows 7 beta although the link unfortunately didn't work and has since been removed. I still believe we'll have to wait until after Steve Ballmer's CES keynote before we'll be able to download the beta.

Interesting.

[HotelUser]

They still didn't fix that ugly startbar.

[Jahova]

It's looking decent, can't wait for the real release.

[Decode]

They still didn't fix that ugly startbar.

Lol The only thing that makes it look ugly is the start orb, it just doesn't look right there. Hopefully they will replace it with a bigger one so part of it is over the top of the startbar like in vista.

[Rix]

i'm running build 6801 and its more stable than xp and vista put together which is looking good for a pre beta release

[Colin-Roberts]

whats the minimum specs for windows 7?

[Decode]

whats the minimum specs for windows 7?

Microsoft haven't said yet, but I can run it fine on a 515mb ram laptop (with transparency off).

[-Eliminate]

so will the min specs be lower than vista

[Agnostic Bear]

so will the min specs be lower than vista

No. It's going to need 80GB of ram, at least 23YB of disc space and 43 graphics cards.

[blanky12!]

so will the min specs be lower than vista

No, Microsoft are all about moving the market forword, and thats what they did with Vista.

xp was

64mb ram min and 128reconmened.

with vista they did 1GB reconemend 2..

you see, thats how they're moving the market forword, building somethign that requires alot.

(if this makes ANY sanse.)