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Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites

Steven Parker
26 January 2008 - 21:12
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It was only a matter of time..

Not too long after Microsoft had released a developer build of the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release to a select few, review and opinion pieces started to leak onto Windows enthusiast sites by OEM employees or their beneficiaries. So it's hardly surprising that now -just a few days later, the full naked DVD image has started to show up on a few torrent sites.

Anonymous pirates vying to snatch credit for the first Windows 7 torrent have only served to frustrate, with many of the downloaders later verifying the various submissions as fake zero byte ISO images, and while we haven't been able to verify for ourselves if indeed a valid Win7 image has been leaked to the pirating community, it sure is stirring up a lot of interest in the past 24 hours!

Developing..

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Do not post in/direct links to illegal downloads, any direct linking to warez, torrent or Windows 7 builds will result in a good stern seeing to!

Comments (40)

  1. Jock Horror - 26 January 2008 - 21:34

    fake?

  2. Angel Blue01 - 26 January 2008 - 21:35

    What a surprise

  3. brianshapiro - 27 January 2008 - 00:15

    (Angel Blue01 said @ #2)
    What a surprise


    What a twist!

  4. bl4ck5un - 26 January 2008 - 21:39

    I'll have mine from a retail store shelf, please.

  5. xendrome - 26 January 2008 - 21:48

    Call one and ask for a pre-order..... rofl..

  6. divadiow - 28 January 2008 - 18:36

    (phiberoptik said @ #3.1)
    Call one and ask for a pre-order..... rofl..

  7. +Chrono951 - 26 January 2008 - 22:23

    Why would anyone want it anyway? Its not nearly close to completion and it only has a few new features. Also, I'm guessing its totally buggy.

  8. xendrome - 26 January 2008 - 22:28

    same guy that says "First" on these forums, is the guy downloading it right now.

  9. Reverse Engineer - 26 January 2008 - 22:38

    (phiberoptik said @ #4.1)
    same guy that says "First" on these forums, is the guy downloading it right now.
    It's not so much that...the majority would be people who have a comp they can dedicate to testing things, and their curiosity gets the better of them. If i had a 'spare' computer, i'd give it a go just to see for myself how things are coming together. I wouldn't care to share my opinion, unless asked, because it would be for myself i'd be downloading it, not some sort of bravado or whatever...that doesn't exist when your download has 2000 seeds. :P

  10. TheNay - 26 January 2008 - 22:31

    All are mentioned as fake so beware, and if you think Vista had issues, this will have more as its an alpha build.
    Beside we all seen screenshots, no diff really than Vista right now, wait til Beta when things change.

  11. Foub - 26 January 2008 - 22:42

    Not by much.

  12. hotdog963al - 26 January 2008 - 22:34

    Even if it was real, ...why... just.... WHY.
    XD

  13. +Lucas - 26 January 2008 - 23:18

    Haha, because it is Microsoft? :P

  14. Kushan - 27 January 2008 - 00:52

    The real surprise is that it took this long for them to appear.

  15. Raiker - 27 January 2008 - 01:03

    Fake. There is nothing on torrent sites except already good known fakes

  16. bjc4ever - 27 January 2008 - 02:33

    It's fake. I d/led 10% and opened with a hex editor, just strings of 0's.

  17. zivan56 - 27 January 2008 - 03:37

    (bjc4ever said @ #9)
    It's fake. I d/led 10% and opened with a hex editor, just strings of 0's.

    They probably are fake. However, did you scan the whole file? All bittorrent files are downloaded nonlinearly and space is pre-allocated by null bytes.

  18. war - 27 January 2008 - 03:31

    Fake, I have not leaked it, yet.

  19. MvT Cracker - 27 January 2008 - 04:00

    (war said @ #10)
    Fake, I have not leaked it, yet. ;)

    well then please do so even tho there is not much difference

  20. Raa - 27 January 2008 - 07:29

    And once you do, the ID encoded in the software will be visible to everyone and you'll get fired from MS :)


    .... Likelyhood of it happening? About the same as you leaking it :P

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