Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites

Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites

Steven Parker on 26 January 2008 - 21:12 · 40 comments & 89330 views

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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!

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#1 Jock Horror on 26 Jan 2008 - 21:34

fake?

(1 reply) #2 Angel Blue01 on 26 Jan 2008 - 21:35

What a surprise

#2.1 brianshapiro on 27 Jan 2008 - 00:15

(Angel Blue01 said @ #2)

What a surprise

What a twist!

(2 replies) #3 bl4ck5un on 26 Jan 2008 - 21:39

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

#3.1 phiberoptik on 26 Jan 2008 - 21:48

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

#3.2 divadiow on 28 Jan 2008 - 18:36

(phiberoptik said @ #3.1)

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

(2 replies) #4 +Chrono951 on 26 Jan 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.

#4.1 phiberoptik on 26 Jan 2008 - 22:28

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

#4.2 Reverse Engineer on 26 Jan 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.

(1 reply) #5 thenay on 26 Jan 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.

#5.1 Foub on 26 Jan 2008 - 22:42

Not by much.

(1 reply) #6 hotdog963al on 26 Jan 2008 - 22:34

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

#6.1 Lucas on 26 Jan 2008 - 23:18

Haha, because it is Microsoft?

#7 +Kushan on 27 Jan 2008 - 00:52

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

#8 Raiker on 27 Jan 2008 - 01:03

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

(1 reply) #9 bjc4ever on 27 Jan 2008 - 02:33

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

#9.1 ivanz on 27 Jan 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.

(3 replies) #10 war on 27 Jan 2008 - 03:31

Fake, I have not leaked it, yet.

#10.1 MvT Cracker on 27 Jan 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

#10.2 Raa on 27 Jan 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

#10.3 +ozzieXP on 27 Jan 2008 - 15:46

(Raa said @ #10.2)

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

The ID is easily removed if you burn the CD and make an ISO again. just saying

(1 reply) #11 rob.derosa on 27 Jan 2008 - 04:15

why the hell is this on the front page if it is not true. Y

ou mention that no one has been able to get a proper version from a torrent site.. so why is this news??

#11.1 nunjabusiness on 28 Jan 2008 - 12:23

Because Neowin hasn't really been about real news for some time now.

(2 replies) #12 Skyfrog on 27 Jan 2008 - 04:44

I bet there are lot's of programmers at Microsoft getting a good laugh at all the people being baited around like sheep with fake screenshots, videos, etc.

#12.1 Commodore Max on 27 Jan 2008 - 04:52

Oh me too haha :p

#12.2 +Brandon Live on 27 Jan 2008 - 18:38

You have no idea

(2 replies) #13 hardgiant on 27 Jan 2008 - 08:49

What kind of hardware will be needed to run Windows 7 really well?

8-core 4Ghz 64 bit CPU
32GB DDR3 memory
solid state hard drive
2Ghz Video Card

Maybe in 2010 eh?

#13.1 SirEvan on 27 Jan 2008 - 10:15

those are cryis's requirements :-p

#13.2 angelwolf71885 on 27 Jan 2008 - 12:11

i thout those were duke nuke em forevers

reqs

(1 reply) #14 torrentthief on 27 Jan 2008 - 14:56

the torrents are all fake, no real leaks yet. so you can delete this topic from the main page.

#14.1 +ozzieXP on 27 Jan 2008 - 15:45

(torrentthief said @ #14)

the torrents are all fake, no real leaks yet. so you can delete this topic from the main page.

doubt it... neowin has been posting a lot of crap lately and they dont remove it.

#15 justlooking on 27 Jan 2008 - 16:12

I just downloaded Star Wars IX- The Conning Of The Geeks. It was made in 2011.

#16 BoDEAN on 27 Jan 2008 - 17:43

I dont know what the hype is.
Its too early to be running any build of this, plus it looks just like vista.
Waste of time and effort even putting this garbage on.

(1 reply) #17 Icemann on 27 Jan 2008 - 21:13

I reckon if the blueprint got sniped then developers can make a modified version of the OS and release it to the public and see how many people appreciate that version over MS version. One thing that bugs me is the UAC in Vista. Why ask a question for EVERY movement in the PC even if you are logged in as Administrator. I hope that is one thing that they remove in Version 7.

#17.1 KevinN206 on 27 Jan 2008 - 23:00

(Icemann said @ #17)

UAC does NOT prompt on EVERY movement in the PC. Trust me, I would be the first person to wipe my HD clean if Vista does do this. You are exaggerating the frequency of it. In fact, I haven't seen any UAC prompt for the past few days. Once your applications are installed properly, you rarely see the UAC prompt. This is only required for system-wide changes and non-UAC aware programs (i.e. programs that demand administrative rights).

There are many websites that explain how UAC works. It's a good change from the all-the-time full administrative mentality.
Microsoft Website:

When an administrator logs on to a computer running Windows Vista, the user is assigned two separate access tokens. Access tokens, which contain a user's group membership and authorization and access control data, are used by Windows� to control what resources and tasks the user can access. Before Windows Vista, an administrator account received only one access token, which included data to grant the user access to all Windows resources. This access control model did not include any failsafe checks to ensure that users truly wanted to perform a task that required their administrative access token. As a result, malicious software could install on users' computers without notifying the users. (This is sometimes referred to as "silent" installation.)

More readings:
User Account Control (Wikipedia)
Windows User Account Control Step-by-Step Guide (Microsoft)
Understanding and Configuring User Account Control in Windows Vista

#18 Electric Bolt on 27 Jan 2008 - 22:09

Does this have minwin?

#19 starless.bible.black on 28 Jan 2008 - 03:58

boy do I hate these. unless this has been confirmed, please do not post this as news. it has apparently not been leaked, but somebody's brain must have leaked.