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Post-Beta Windows 7 Build Leaked With New IE8
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."
...has always been that they contained malicious software that will slow down my computer and drain my bank account...this simply proved it!
Post-beta is really relative. I consider all windows OSes beta until 2 years after the initial release.
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.
I'd be pretty surprised if this latest leaked build ends up giving us a sneak peak at what Microsoft's plans to butcher up Windows 7 into 5+ "versions" is. I'd like to try to use my computer with a 2-process limit, just to see how stupid that would be!
But, I suppose that would be BAD press...
What is stopping you from doing it now? I am running the latest Slackware in a VM on my XP Pro laptop. Why do you need Windows 7 for that?
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Haven't you heard? Konqueror may finally get some competition with this new IE 8.
From my impressions of it, in public release beta, they have came a long ways to make an OS that is actually intuitive to use. I've had very minimal bugs arise, and am quite pleased from this. I've used and been pleased with many versions of *nix, but 7 is a pleasant experience so far.
It's a meme some AC's have been trying to start; so far it has been a "no go". But I for one am happy that it has been failing, slashdot really doesn't need to have another crappy meme.
Know thyself. -- Delphic Oracle, 8th century BC
So do we really need to have a Windows 7 article every day? It's in beta, it changes -- and it's not exactly eagerly awaited anyway.
So, other than MS promoting this as much as the possibly can -- is there any need to have any articles on it at all, unless there's a major change?
I still cannot fathom why people scramble to get the latest copy of a Windows OS way before it's really even declared "ready."
It's not like your development software is really going to work on the thing; and for that matter--we all know once it finally gets pressed to a DVD the first Service Pack is already on its way out the door, so QA-testing is moot.
BREAKING: Microsoft critically wounded by Internet assailant
In what appears to be yet another PR nightmare for the software giant, today Internet user macraig made scathing comments on the highly reputable Slashdot ORG site. Calling all Microsoft operating systems after Windows 2000, "a job poorly done" and noting that Windows has family and friends "hand-cuffed" to it, macraig assaulted the company with fierce textual blows. He even implied he would not infringe copyrights to obtain the newest Windows 7 operating system, a rather heinous indictment in this Web 2.0 world of P2P. "It was wanton, it was unnecessary," said one page viewer. Another user by the name of Anonymous Coward said he didn't know what to think after he read macraig's comments, only remarking on how "gruesome" the spectacle was.
Whether Microsoft will fully recover from this battery of attacks, no one will know. They were unavailable for comment. We will continue to keep you posted on this breaking news story.
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I don't get this - If you haven't used a windows OS since 2000, how can you say it a "job poorly done".
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.
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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?
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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
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?
I guess you have never tried it, I could recommend some distros that are on very mature and dont require you to learn command lines to use.
http://www.gentoo.org/
So out of all the user friendly distros you pick... Gentoo?
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
The leaked beta is 32bit only.
How to hack Win7:
1. Search Registry for "MAX_APPS"
2. Change from 3 to 0
i read about it in a blog once
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.
BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.
Your son may try to install "lunix" on your hard drive. If he is careful, you may not notice its presence, however, lunix is a capricious beast, and if handled incorrectly, your son may damage your computer, and even break it completely by deleting Windows, at which point you will have to have your computer repaired by a professional.
If you see the word "LILO" during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix. In order to get rid of it, you will have to send your computer back to the manufacturer, and have them fit a new hard drive. Lunix is extremely dangerous software, and cannot be removed without destroying part of your hard disk surface.
How does that help? Then you can't start any at all!
Once the public learned about the 3 app limit
The "three app limit" applies only to the Starter Edition - a Windows OS and a small suite of programs localized for beginners in third world countries.
The Sugar GUI originally designed for OLPC allows only one task to run.
It makes no sense to allow inexperienced users to randomly launch multiple apps on systems that will very quickly run out of the resources needed to run them.
Sigh....I am probably going to get flamed for this, but what the hey, my karma is great and I hate half truths. There is NO Linux OS that you don't have to learn CLI. NONE AT ALL. Folks like to say that there is, but there really isn't.
If you want proof, here it is. Pretend to be an Ubuntu user. Ubuntu is a friendly Linux distro that doesn't need CLI, right? Install it to a PC. Now let us say that something doesn't work. You are completely free to pick the something: Network/Audio/Video/multi card reader, whatever. Now go to the forums like a good Windows user would do and ask for help. Your answer will ALWAYS start with "Bring up Bash and....."
And it is at THAT moment you have lost. You have failed, the game is over, the fat lady has sung, please hit the lights on your way out. You will NEVER get your average Windows user to use CLI. Hell even the power users usually avoid it like an STD. Believe me, of this I know. As a Windows repairman with over 15 years in the biz I have tried teaching a little CLI to users. It is not going to happen cap'n. They don't WANT to learn the CLI, they HATE the CLI, and frankly the vast majority doesn't even know that Windows HAS a CLI, because in Windows you can always do what you need to by GUI. But it just ain't so in Linux.
The day that you can have a problem in a Linux distro and go to the forums and NOT get "bring up bash and..." as the standard answer then it might be ready for Windows users. Oh, and make those damned Lexmark printers work, but that is another story. But until Linux reaches the point that you can fix problems without ever needing to know the CLI exists it just won't be ready for most Windows users. Honestly I don't think it ever will be, simply because Linux under the hood is really built for servers and servers are CLI based. Nothing wrong with that, servers are a big market. But those shelling out the big bucks to write all the nitty gritty down and dirty internals that all the distros have in common are doing it for servers. And an emphasis on removing CLI dependence simply isn't something they are the least bit interested in. But the second you tell the vast majority of Windows users to "bring up bash and..." they will be bringing the PC to me to have it wiped and Windows installed. Sorry.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I don't know what to think about this post. It's such a gruesome spectacle.
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.
No existe.
It must be a really failed meme then. As you can see from my UID, I'm not new here, and I don't remember ever hearing this one before.
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The problem with your argument is this: and it is another really big problem with Linux. With Windows they often don't HAVE to use reg edit, even for a nasty problem. Why? Because there is usually an uncle/cousin/nephew who is a "power user" and has no problem doing that for them. Or if they are one of those that don't have someone like that in the family they can bring it to one of the multitude of friendly Windows repairmen like me. And we don't support Linux. Frankly it is just too much of a PITA. If you talk to a Windows repairman they'll tell you that like me they tried Linux and left because of something them just drove them batshit insane.
In my case I went so far as to try to sell low cost Linux boxes, boy what a mistake that was! Why was it a mistake? Five words: Lexmark all in one printer. You ever try to get one of those bastards to work in Linux? Good luck with that! And can you guess what the most popular consumer printer is? That's right, you guessed it! I was able to sell the machines with Win98 and Win2K easier than a nice shiny new Kubuntu because what good is a PC that you can't print from? And you can forget bundling a printer because nobody is going to pay $300 for a 1.4GHz PC with 512MB of RAM simply for the privilege of using Linux. So from a business perspective it is easier to only carry Windows. Even if the machine is Win2K a good 99.5% of the time there is a driver for it. As I just pointed out there is a whole class of consumer product that you will be lucky to get to work at all in Linux.
Is it the fault of Linux? Nope, not at all. But consumers don't care. They want it to work or they are wanting their money back. As I said Linux is great for servers. All the major server hardware is supported out of the box and it is easier to lock down than Windows. But until I can be assured that everything my customers is likely to pick up in Walmart will work in say Kubuntu out of the box I simply can't deal with it. And talking to local shop owners none of them deal with Linux either. So while your Windows user can drop it off at a "power user" or slip a little cash to a repair shop and have their problems magically disappear, the Windows user trying Linux for the first time is alone, with a big blinking Bash cursor that frankly scares them that they are going to do something wrong. It is TOO powerful for them. So they bring it to me to wipe and put Windows on where they feel safe that they know what they are doing and can get real live help when they need it. Sorry, no sale.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.