Yesterday we covered the 7048 screenshot leak but word reaches us that an x64 version of 7048 has leaked to popular torrent sites today.7048 carries the build tag 7048.0.winmain.090219-1845 meaning it was compiled on the 19th February. According to the screenshots that leaked yesterday 7048 includes a tweaked start button, new icons for Notes, Paint and Calculator applications and Aero Peek is enabled on alt+tab.
7048 is a pre-RC1 compile of Windows 7 and is not likely to become the final RC1 build.
I used it to upgrade from 7022 just by putting the files on another hard drive and clicking setup.exe
Data is neither loose nor tight.
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I believe it will be made public about a week or two after the MSDN and TechNet people get their hands on it. I think I read somewhere that it will be available in April sometime.
RC does not mean "Release to Candidates", it means "Release Candidate", in other words, the build is a possible candidate for release. Usually only last minute bug fixes occur between RC and RTM.
Not everybody has 4 GB of RAM or more.
And what exactly are those of us running Windows 7 on netbooks supposed to use?
And yes MS should stop making 32bit all together, If people want to run old hardware...they should have to stick to old OSes too.
Besides the x64 builds are more stable and get far less malware n viruses!
If you are asking for a torrent link, please don't - it is against our rules.
However, if you are asking for a link to an article about it being leaked... I would allow that
Regardless, the rumor of build 7054 being leaked has been confirmed as fake anyway
Wow, another clueless twit who thinks that all 32-bit systems are necessarily old systems. Here's a clue: most (possibly all) netbooks currently being sold use Intel Atom processors, which are 32-bit.
And netbooks make up what 1% of hardware sales if that!
Considering that netbook class machines have only been generally available for less than a year, and sales only really started to take off around december of last year (3 months ago), even 1% would be impressive, but I'd be willing to bet that netbooks make up much more than 1% of current hardware sales (and the percentage is still rising).
(For those who need a grammar lesson, " it's " is a contraction for "it is". Just read the full thing out loud whenever you cannot decide whether to use an apostrophe, or not.)
Athlon64s. Oh man, Microsoft should start releasing 128-bit-only builds, and people with old processors like A64s should stick to older OSes!
Last edited by spinning_quirK on 04 Mar 2009 - 16:30
Can anyone verify this so I don't waster time downloading 7048?
Last edited by DustRider on 04 Mar 2009 - 01:49
This is really the best OS by far in my opinion.
Thanks!
It didn't take long to notice a glaring bug in 7048 after installing it on another hard drive. On the Windows Explorer views (file browser, control panel etc) the path and search field sizes can't be changed. This would be ok otherwise but the path field is way too small to be of any use. 7000 also has these issues but only in the Open dialogs from other programs (and even then you can resize the fields, the setting just doesn't stick).
I also spotted a bug where the UAC confirmation prompt jumped into the top left corner. Not a big issue but annoying enough on a 30" screen.
Minor bugs but if I spotted these minutes after installing, I can expect a lot more in there. I'm sticking with 7000 and waiting for the public RC build.
PS. No X-Fi drivers on 7048. The Creative ones install just fine if you run the installer in Vista compatibility mode. Otherwise drivers installed nicely, unlike 7000 I didn't have to install network or motherboard drivers separately. Windows update also installed drivers for my keyboard and display.
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