Leaked copies of Windows 7 hit the Internet only hours after Microsoft Corp. handed out a preview build to developers last week, according to searches at several BitTorrent-tracking sites. The notorious Pirate Bay site, for example, first noted the 32-bit version of the upcoming operating system on Oct. 29, just one day after Microsoft unveiled Windows 7 to attendees at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. A 64-bit edition was posted the following day.As of midday Sunday, with several copies of Windows 7 available, downloading was brisk. One 32-bit torrent listed on Pirate Bay showed more than 1,400 "seeders," the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file, and close to 5,300 "leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. The 32-bit torrent installs a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, according to users commenting on the site.
Shock!
Uh oh, I sense more potential version confusion here a la Vista.
How many versions of this new Windows 7 will there be?
Windows 7 uses the same editions as Vista. There is no confusion because there are just 4 retail SKUs.
Ultimate Edition - No compromise
Business - join a domain, encryption
Home Premium - Media Center, use XBOX 360 as a media extender
Home Basic - Email, surf net, manage photos
Enterprise - Volume License customers, multi-lingual support, UNIX subsystem
Starter - emerging markets, only on new PCs.
Windows 7 uses the same editions as Vista. There is no confusion because there are just 4 retail SKUs.
Ultimate Edition - No compromise
Business - join a domain, encryption
Home Premium - Media Center, use XBOX 360 as a media extender
Home Basic - Email, surf net, manage photos
Enterprise - Volume License customers, multi-lingual support, UNIX subsystem
Starter - emerging markets, only on new PCs.
and N version and Korean version of each one
Windows 7 uses the same editions as Vista. There is no confusion because there are just 4 retail SKUs.
Ultimate Edition - No compromise
Business - join a domain, encryption
Home Premium - Media Center, use XBOX 360 as a media extender
Home Basic - Email, surf net, manage photos
Enterprise - Volume License customers, multi-lingual support, UNIX subsystem
Starter - emerging markets, only on new PCs.
and N version and Korean version of each one
Windows Vista N and K are not actual SKUs since they still share SKU naming conventions with same Vista SKUs they supplement e.g.:
Windows Vista Home Basic N
Windows Vista Home Premium N
Windows Vista Business N
Unless the inclusion of Windows Media Player warrants a N version.
What does the EU want anyway... make Microsoft include the 9x Sound Recorder as the default player?
Pirated OpenOffice.org? Firefox? Linux?
LOL!
I did just out of spite.
Ummm... Illegally obtaining a copy of this copywritten software is "copyright infringement", and therefore...
(wait for it)
Piracy.
But available for beta testers.
Now they just have more testers, more like a open beta.
I know you are just trying to make a joke. But whether or not it is a product that is "for sale" yet is quite irrelevant.
Microsoft holds the copyright. It is their software, to be distributed as they choose.
don't think this is a solution man...sure it identifies the person but as soon as its in the wild they still wouldn't have a solution to stop it from spreading
well next time they would not give that person a copy...
And then your back to square one.
And then your back to square one.
but the whole idea is its inside a random file.. impossible to find if you dont know where to look.
Well what do they expect if they give it out in ISO's on little HD's...
placed comment as reply to +Shadrack's post.
Oh noes. Maybe, just maybe some people aren't aware of the leak?
You would, but you know that would be futile.
That's almost toe-curlingly cheesy. Come on everyone, you heard the man, down tools.
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