Windows 7 RC completed, build 7100

(3 replies) #1 Spirit Dave on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:07

Personally I LOVE Windows 7 ... but I also love MacOS. I think this is Microsoft's re-entry into respect from the masses. Windows Vista, as much as I thought was a 'good' OS, didn't go down well with audiences worldwide ... for good reason. Windows 7 is a solid OS even at early beta stage and I've been using it as my main OS with not one SINGLE crash since it came out.

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#1.1 Betaz on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:05

I couldn't agree with you more. I'm a Macbook user at home, but I make my living off Windows. My media center system is running Win 7, as well as my work computer (yeah, it's good enough/I'm crazy enough to put it on my work machine). I absolutely love it. It's an incredibly solid and fast OS. If I were MS I'd just stop with the Vista ads and start hyping 7.

#1.2 Silverskull on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:23

Betaz said,

I couldn't agree with you more. I'm a Macbook user at home, but I make my living off Windows. My media center system is running Win 7, as well as my work computer (yeah, it's good enough/I'm crazy enough to put it on my work machine). I absolutely love it. It's an incredibly solid and fast OS. If I were MS I'd just stop with the Vista ads and start hyping 7.

Vista ads? All the MS ads I've seen lately are for PCs in general. Or Windows Live, which is available for every Windows PC running XP or later.

#1.3 Betaz on 23 Apr 2009 - 14:03

Silverskull said,

Vista ads? All the MS ads I've seen lately are for PCs in general. Or Windows Live, which is available for every Windows PC running XP or later.

Yeah, that's true. They haven't had so many Vista ads anymore now that the whole Mojave campaign is over.

#2 dlegend on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:10

It's about time!

(3 replies) #3 Zain Adeel on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:14

Cant wait for a leak

#3.1 Tom Z on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:34

Zain Adeel said,

Cant wait for a leak

You obviously didn't read the article. Might want to re-read it and read the part that says "PUBLIC release candidate"

#3.2 FrozenEclipse on 23 Apr 2009 - 08:08

Tom Z said,

You obviously didn't read the article. Might want to re-read it and read the part that says "PUBLIC release candidate"

Maybe he meant he's waiting for a leak before May 5th.

#3.3 Faisal Islam on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:08

me tooo...can't wait for 5mayyy

(4 replies) #4 Papz on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:37

hopes is comes with new Build Ui

#4.1 Faisal Islam on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:08

NO WAY!

#4.2 Betaz on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:10

Even if 7 is going to have a new UI. It won't be in the RC. Even if they don't release any public builds with the new UI, they'll at least have it in many builds for testing internally, and at this point we've seen builds that are just a few builds away from RC, and everything looks the same. I'm not at all convinced that there will be any new UI though. It just doesn't even make sense at this point.

#4.3 Frank Fontaine on 23 Apr 2009 - 15:30

It will be in the RC if present at all, or in a later released build, they wouldn't release an OS with a totally new UI with no, or very little testing.

#4.4 excalpius on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:55

People keep confusing the term UI with Theme.

(7 replies) #5 forcer on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:39

So how come it's not being released until 2010 ?

i don't know much about beta but if it's RC now, it should reach RC 2 soon and then it's ready for release?

#5.1 +kpo6969 on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:48

1 beta (7000)
1 RC (7xx

RTM

Release date of RTM is just speculation atm.

#5.2 Faisal Islam on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:09

Yeah....maybe January 2010

#5.3 excalpius on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:57

It's not. Some moron keeps parroting the Vista release schedule, changing the years to now. He's wrong in every way.

RC - End of April, aka NOW
RTM - End of July
on store shelves from major OEMs - September

everything selling and supported in time for Christmas

#5.4 waruikoohii on 23 Apr 2009 - 17:13

excalpius said,

It's not. Some moron keeps parroting the Vista release schedule, changing the years to now. He's wrong in every way.

RC - End of April, aka NOW
RTM - End of July
on store shelves from major OEMs - September

everything selling and supported in time for Christmas

All rumors.

The best official release date we have is, believe it or not, January 2010. Straight from Microsoft. "Three years from Vista's general availability."

#5.5 thealexweb on 23 Apr 2009 - 20:35

excalpius said,

It's not. Some moron keeps parroting the Vista release schedule, changing the years to now. He's wrong in every way.

RC - End of April, aka NOW
RTM - End of July
on store shelves from major OEMs - September

everything selling and supported in time for Christmas

Your slighty wrong, you haven't taken in to account Microsoft have hit problems and are considering a 2nd RC to address bugs, etc.

#5.6 excalpius on 23 Apr 2009 - 23:13

@waruikoohii, before you claim I am de facto wrong, you might want to see what actually happens.

@thealexweb, "Considering" is the active word here. If there is a showstopper bug (most likely with WMP12 right now), it will push RTM to August...that's all.

#5.7 Shiranui on 24 Apr 2009 - 00:20

excalpius said,

RC - End of April, aka NOW

Since when has the end of April been also known as now?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the RC as I've been stuck with the initial 7000 build all this time.

#6 DSLJay on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:40

Looking forward to the new build. Can't wait for it to be released to MSDN/TechNet subscribers. Loving Windows 7 a lot more then any previous Windows OS.

#7 +Chicane-UK on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:44

Looking forward to this a lot - I reckon Windows 7 is going to be a real winner.

#8 helios01 on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:54

Looking forward to May 5th, even though I have 2 finals that day -_-

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#9.1 Digix on 23 Apr 2009 - 07:56

LOLOL has to be one of most epic comments in a while

#10 theslam08 on 23 Apr 2009 - 08:08

Yes, thats very good

. Hope it is great indeed, put it on most of my stuff.

Remember though, cannot give sooo much credit to them, they are building off vista, which is much more adopted now (if I use it NOW compared to 3 months after it was released (personally stuck with xp even after the betas of vista) it 'is' pretty good...with all the updates and 1gb+ ram). Yes, the updates. Plethora of them, + drivers that are 'compatible' now. We were working with beta and experimental stuff after rtm. Poor preparation (Manufactueres fault), although poor presentation (M$ fault).

7 is the good vista now, but a lot better, yes indeed. I remember reading they wanted [Longhorn] to be a big jump, and lay the groundworks. I think thats what they did. 7 is now building off it very well. So it I feel all worked out and it will benefit them even more.

(1 reply) #11 Recon415 on 23 Apr 2009 - 08:12

*waits for leak*

#11.1 Avee on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:03

me too!!!... Cant wait for the leak or I might get it off Technet website as they sent me a mesage about some windows 7 beta evaluation and windows 7 RC Download Link .. LOL :p

(6 replies) #12 lee26 on 23 Apr 2009 - 08:21

I'm surprise people are still saying 5th of May for it's release when an online chat between a technet user and a microsoft rep states 15th of May which I believe more as this is a Friday and is also then end of their TechEd event and they almost always release major products at key events and as far as I know they don't have any key events around the 5th of May.

#12.1 +DonC on 23 Apr 2009 - 08:25

lee26 said,

I'm surprise people are still saying 5th of May for it's release when an online chat between a technet user and a microsoft rep states 15th of May which I believe more as this is a Friday and is also then end of their TechEd event and they almost always release Major products at key events and as far as I know they don't have any key events around the 5th of May.

This confuses me too.

If the 5th of May is going to be the public release of the RC, then I just don't understand the significance of the 15th of May.

#12.2 epple on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:49

AFAIK, May 5th is the release on Technet and MSDN and on May 15th it will be released to public.

#12.3 +majortom1981 on 23 Apr 2009 - 15:42

lee26 said,

I'm surprise people are still saying 5th of May for it's release when an online chat between a technet user and a microsoft rep states 15th of May which I believe more as this is a Friday and is also then end of their TechEd event and they almost always release major products at key events and as far as I know they don't have any key events around the 5th of May.

This is what i have been saying also. It states that all tech ed attendees will get windows 7 RC at the event. They will get it via technet.

So I am guessing that may 15 will be the technet and msdn release date and the public will be out later.

#12.4 excalpius on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:58

No, I believe the build has been locked. You'll see it any day now.

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#12.5 crazlunatic on 23 Apr 2009 - 19:48

lee26 said,

I'm surprise people are still saying 5th of May for it's release when an online chat between a technet user and a microsoft rep states 15th of May which I believe more as this is a Friday and is also then end of their TechEd event and they almost always release major products at key events and as far as I know they don't have any key events around the 5th of May.

Surprisingly, I saw screenshots here with chats to Jeff Zhang. My friend talked to the SAME Jeff Zhang and he replied I don't know, and did not mention May 15 at all

#12.6 lee26 on 23 Apr 2009 - 20:01

crazlunatic said,

Surprisingly, I saw screenshots here with chats to Jeff Zhang. My friend talked to the SAME Jeff Zhang and he replied I don't know, and did not mention May 15 at all

That's the online chat I'm referring to.

(5 replies) #13 rakeshishere on 23 Apr 2009 - 08:28

Plsssssssssss leakkkkkkkkkkk

#13.1 testman on 23 Apr 2009 - 08:49

Don't be so pathetic. It'll be out May 5th.

#13.2 Fox-HTV on 23 Apr 2009 - 09:16

lol, if it's leaked, they'll just make another build and name it 7101 just to be ahead of the leak, lol.

#13.3 Frank Fontaine on 23 Apr 2009 - 15:32

Not true, Beta 1 leaked a while before its release to testers, and the build released was the same as the build leaked.

#13.4 Avee on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:04

True Say Frank Fontaine LOL

#13.5 Fox-HTV on 24 Apr 2009 - 08:50

Lol, looks like the leak is out, more importantly, includes the x64 version.
It's the case according to WZor at least.

#14 Marc Podito on 23 Apr 2009 - 08:37

hoping for a may 5 release.

#15 AnthoWin on 23 Apr 2009 - 09:07

+1 for a May fifth public release.

Windows Media Center on 7 was awesome so I can't wait to switch to RC!

#16 Atari.2600 on 23 Apr 2009 - 09:09

Awesome, cant wait to get my hands on it..

Regards,
Atari

(3 replies) #17 Marc Podito on 23 Apr 2009 - 09:32

is this article confirming 7077 was the build pushed to 7100 RC?

#17.1 Tom W on 23 Apr 2009 - 09:34

No

#17.2 lee26 on 23 Apr 2009 - 09:41

The last known build prior to this was 7088 so in theory it's 12 builds higher than 7077.

#17.3 chAos972 on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:44

Marc Podito said,

is this article confirming 7077 was the build pushed to 7100 RC?

No.

(3 replies) #18 Ruciz on 23 Apr 2009 - 10:04

beta crashes on my laptop. actually, only refuses to come out of sleep mode. thats a huge issue. Other than that it is very stable.. better over than vista.

#18.1 jjrambo on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:54

Ruciz said,

beta crashes on my laptop. actually, only refuses to come out of sleep mode. thats a huge issue. Other than that it is very stable.. better over than vista.

Same here. After coming from sleep or hibernation i get BSOD.

#18.2 х.iso on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:00

I also have similar trouble with my toshiba tecra m7. It just tend to freeze after waking from sleep/hibernate mode, but not every time. It happens randomly and sometimes it stuck even before showing logon screen, but most times when I already logon to desktop.
However problem reduced after upgrading to 7077, but maybe the whole trouble is because of upgrading from vista at the beginning, I didn't tried to install from scratch.

#18.3 Dashel on 24 Apr 2009 - 04:44

Power management is easily the biggest weakness I've experienced with the beta as well.

(1 reply) #19 hardgiant on 23 Apr 2009 - 10:32

Question: Will it be much different from the current leaked builds?

Answer: No!

#19.1 Jugalator on 23 Apr 2009 - 11:53

Uh, but it probably won't be much different at all.

#20 Phoenix-76 on 23 Apr 2009 - 10:54

Windows 7 Build 7100 - Can't wait to get my copy ...

#21 Airlink on 23 Apr 2009 - 11:56

Too bad it got deleted.

(1 reply) #22 willard27 on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:10

The beta 7000 build has been removed from TechNet, would not be surprised to see build 7100 RC on TechNet sometime today or tonight depending on where you live.

#22.1 excalpius on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:59

+1 Finally, someone speaking who actually sees and knows how MS works.

-1 Because the beta hasn't been removed from Technet. 8P

(3 replies) #23 jjrambo on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:50

If they are going to do some UI changes we will see it in this RC build, otherwise it was just another rumor. I hope i see a fix to correctly detect processor speed for i7 Intel CPUs. Also i am hoping they reworked Start Menu a bit. Shut Down button is ridicilous and out of place. WMP12 felt incompleted in 7077 build, so it needs a work too.

#23.1 excalpius on 23 Apr 2009 - 17:00

WMP12 is actually the big internal problemo. It's behind schedule, but I don't think it will affect the RTM schedule they are on internally. But if RTM slips past July, it will VERY likely be due to WMP12.

#23.2 rm20010 on 23 Apr 2009 - 18:27

What's wrong with WMP12? The only real problem is the ugly Now Playing playlist header, and the 'second' floating window occasionally appearing before the parent Now Playing window (the second floating window houses the transport controls).

#23.3 excalpius on 23 Apr 2009 - 23:15

There are some under the hood problems that haven't gotten a lot of press, but a few people here have noticed some of them. I personally don't think it will force an RC2 though as it is just one application and they are really on it right now.

#24 Navan on 23 Apr 2009 - 12:55

Awaiting the leak xD

#25 torrentthief on 23 Apr 2009 - 13:07

i'll wait for solor to upload the 64bit version.

(4 replies) #26 Radiant on 23 Apr 2009 - 14:00

Nice, can't wait for final release.

#26.1 Faisal Islam on 23 Apr 2009 - 14:22

meee too

#26.2 dbam987 on 23 Apr 2009 - 14:57

Me three

#26.3 +dead.cell on 23 Apr 2009 - 15:21

Ahhh, final release. There you go guys.

#26.4 Avee on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:07

Me Four!!!

(1 reply) #27 Jericho2006 on 23 Apr 2009 - 14:26

The beta also has NOT been removed from Technet.

#27.1 winlonghorn on 23 Apr 2009 - 18:45

+1 It is still there for me.

#28 mct2009 on 23 Apr 2009 - 15:19

According to all of my info and the courseware for Windows 7 is due out in August. (For Certifications) I would think that MS will have 7 out in time for the Back to school and Holiday Shopping Seasons. The RC should be out on May 5th and the MSDN and Technet communities should have it a few days early. I cant wait for this to come out. I have been testing it for a long time now and it is an amazing OS.

#29 torrentthief on 23 Apr 2009 - 15:31

btw, the torrents on the big torrent sites for build 7100 are fake: http://i42.tinypic.com/2wfmyo1.jpg

will probably be a few days until it actually leaks.

#30 DiEMOS on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:04

Hopefully it will be out by the weekend. I'll finally reformat and do a fresh install

(11 replies) #31 Avee on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:09

MAN.. I'VE SEEN THR RC ALLREADY AS MY UNCLE WORKS FOR SQL SERVERS AND MY OTHER COUSINS WORK FOR MICROSOFT.. SO THEY HAVE SEEN IT AND SHOWED ME A SCREENSHOT... ND YEH THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANGE IN THE UI(sorted now) AND APPARENTLY IT DOEESNT USE MUCH PROCESSOR POWER LOL xD

#31.1 Avee on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:10

Must have answered u guys questionszz

#31.2 shortyg32 on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:21

Avee said,

MAN.. I'VE SEEN THR RC ALLREADY AS MY UNCLE WORKS FOR SQL SERVERS AND MY OTHER COUSINS WORK FOR MICROSOFT.. SO THEY HAVE SEEN IT AND SHOWED ME A SCREENSHOT... ND YEH THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANGE IN THE UI(sorted now) AND APPARENTLY IT DOEESNT USE MUCH PROCESSOR POWER LOL xD

yeah my cousins boyfriends moms uncle works for microsoft and my friend works for nasa and they both sawz a screenshotz and it uzed much process's

#31.3 SleeStak on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:45

shortyg32 said,

yeah my cousins boyfriends moms uncle works for microsoft and my friend works for nasa and they both sawz a screenshotz and it uzed much process's

lol perfect except you should have used caps

#31.4 Avee on 23 Apr 2009 - 17:21

Man. yeh mybe ur wrong .. im using it now..LOL. i might be uploading it on torrents next.. if im bothered.. LOL WELL FOR NOW ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT THE RC ROCKS!!!!!! TO THE MAXXXX.....

#31.5 Avee on 23 Apr 2009 - 17:21

my uncle got it for me!! LOL xD

#31.6 donBoomy on 23 Apr 2009 - 17:31

Avee said,

ND YEH THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANGE IN THE UI(sorted now) AND APPARENTLY IT DOEESNT USE MUCH PROCESSOR POWER LOL xD

what's so funny about that? I mean, cool if you're right but it doesn't sound like anything to lol about.

#31.7 Jericho2006 on 23 Apr 2009 - 17:50

Avee said,

Man. yeh mybe ur wrong .. im using it now..LOL. i might be uploading it on torrents next.. if im bothered.. LOL WELL FOR NOW ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT THE RC ROCKS!!!!!! TO THE MAXXXX.....

Another 12 year old looking for attention.

#31.8 rm20010 on 23 Apr 2009 - 18:29

You know what happened to the last kid who leaked shots from his father's workstation? The father who worked in the SQL Server division?

Let's just say that it didn't go down all that well for them...

#31.9 Lord Zog on 23 Apr 2009 - 18:45

Blood was involved...

#31.10 -Hiroshi- on 23 Apr 2009 - 18:48

Avee said,

MAN.. I'VE SEEN THR RC ALLREADY AS MY UNCLE WORKS FOR SQL SERVERS AND MY OTHER COUSINS WORK FOR MICROSOFT.. SO THEY HAVE SEEN IT AND SHOWED ME A SCREENSHOT... ND YEH THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANGE IN THE UI(sorted now) AND APPARENTLY IT DOEESNT USE MUCH PROCESSOR POWER LOL xD

Avee said,

Man. yeh mybe ur wrong .. im using it now..LOL. i might be uploading it on torrents next.. if im bothered.. LOL WELL FOR NOW ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT THE RC ROCKS!!!!!! TO THE MAXXXX.....

........................................................................................................... Does it make me a bad person to say that I dislike this individual to the point where I would like to have an internet whammy button that knocks him offline so he can stop being an idiot?

#31.11 nvme on 23 Apr 2009 - 21:26

-Hiroshi- said,

........................................................................................................... Does it make me a bad person to say that I dislike this individual to the point where I would like to have an internet whammy button that knocks him offline so he can stop being an idiot?

nope.. it's perfectly natural to feel that way.

(1 reply) #32 m.keeley on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:11

At this rate I'd be suprised if they don't get it out this year.

#32.1 xendrome on 23 Apr 2009 - 23:57

I wouldn't.. technically thats been the plan for quiet some time now, RTM before 2010.... doesn't mean it'll be retail, but at least OEM and on new machines OEM

#33 BorisX on 23 Apr 2009 - 16:34

RC1 - 21.04.2009 available on 05.05.2009
RC2 - 2x.05.2009 not known if it's gonna be publicly available
RTM - August ???
General Availability - September ???
...
Office 2010 - 2010

Latest Completed according to WZor: 6.1.7116.0.winmain.090422-1816

(1 reply) #34 Avee on 23 Apr 2009 - 17:28

LOL... solor will be uploading windows 7 RC next on torrent!!!

#34.1 BoDEAN on 23 Apr 2009 - 19:12

Link? Picture? Else just a rumor.

(2 replies) #35 jjrambo on 23 Apr 2009 - 18:33

We will see how good MS will make Windows 7 RC. Between RC and RTM we might not even notice changes lol. I guess possible new set of Icons and Sound Scheme could be left for RTM build. I also believe that Office 2010 and Windows 7 Final UI will blend together nicely. Ribbons might show up in Windows Explorer as well, just speculation.

#35.1 Lord Ba'al on 23 Apr 2009 - 23:38

jjrambo said,

Ribbons might show up in Windows Explorer as well, just speculation.

Yes, ribbons in Explorer would be great!
The current retarded pseudo-toolbar in Explorer is (almost) completely useless, and you can't even customise it to fix that.

#35.2 +Vlad on 24 Apr 2009 - 03:41

Lord Ba'al said,

Yes, ribbons in Explorer would be great!
The current retarded pseudo-toolbar in Explorer is (almost) completely useless, and you can't even customise it to fix that.

I would be EXTREMELY happy if they used a ribbon interface in explorer.

(1 reply) #36 ccoltmanm on 24 Apr 2009 - 01:00

I would like to see "ribbons" integrated into Windows more.

It already is in Calculator, Wordpad/Notepad; I can easily see it in Windows Movie Maker, as well as Explorer.

I can't see it in Internet Explorer though, too big.

#36.1 +Brandon Live on 24 Apr 2009 - 02:11

There isn't a ribbon in Calculator, nor one in Notepad. You were probably thinking of Wordpad and Paint.

Windows Live Movie Maker (early beta) already has a ribbon.

Don't be expecting any significant UI changes in Win7 at this point. RC means "basically done."

#37 The Grasshopper on 24 Apr 2009 - 04:03

I tested the first RC build 7000 and I used it everyday, all the time. I didn't have time to keep changing my build, but 7 is by far the best OS to date.I don't need anymore testing as i think they should release this thing by June or July at the latest. MS Marketing will probably want it released "back to school" or at christmas time. but imho this thing is done. Last night i decided to put my laptop back to vista, eagerly awaiting 7. I will be upgrading from my vista, it doesn't matter if you do an upgrade or a clean install they both turn out the same; AWESOME!.
Here's to the waiting game...

(1 reply) #38 thealexweb on 24 Apr 2009 - 07:10

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8015623.stm Read the bottom few lines of this page.

"Shares in Microsoft rose by 4% in after-hours trading - possibly reassured by comments from the firm that it was on track to release the next version of its operating system, Windows 7, during its 2010 financial year."

2010?

#38.1 g0rd0nF on 24 Apr 2009 - 08:32

thealexweb said,

during its 2010 financial year.

2010?

financial year! it begins on 1st oct 2009

#39 BorisX on 24 Apr 2009 - 07:44

Windows 7 build 7100 up for grabs on torrent sites. Both x86 and x64 leaked in an interval of nearly 4 hours

Ask Google for more info

#40 rajputwarrior on 24 Apr 2009 - 18:28

neowin got cited in the .NFO file of the leaked release...

#41 Xibe on 24 Apr 2009 - 21:53

haha really?

You can download fifty screenshots in a .zip of the release here: 7100 screenshots.

(2 replies) #42 davidtb on 26 Apr 2009 - 20:32

x64 build still won't shutdown completely, when in dual boot.

#42.1 yakumo on 28 Apr 2009 - 00:23

davidtb said,

x64 build still won't shutdown completely, when in dual boot.

fine here, always has been

#42.2 davidtb on 29 Apr 2009 - 12:51

Love to know what I'm doing wrong...
db.

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