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Did you even take a moment to read the accompanying article?
Man, it seems like yesterday that we were dogfooding Longhorn Server. But that?s long gone, and Windows Server 2008 has RTM?d, so it?s time for a break right? Yeah, well, breaks over and there are new toys to play with already. So congratulations to the operations team, the product group, pm?s, and everyone else that has put the effort in to get us to the point where we put the first Win7 domain controller in production:

Build: 6608.winmain_win7m2.080511-1400

No reference to this nonsensical screenshot of nothing.

PMr. Dee Dee you should have posted where you got the screenshot from?

Wow. :sleep:

When you are computer illiterate it will be rubbish to you. Besides the fact that Windows client releases build off the Windows Server codebases, the next release of Windows Server is not considered important - how weird. This is a milestone at Microsoft right now, its not an easy thing to get a build of Windows compiled and 'working'. This post is telling us, that the Company has successfully put into production a working build of the next version of Windows Server. If you people appreciated software engineering and the work developers at Microsoft put into developing the software we use everyday there would be less whining and more understanding.

I hope Microsoft filters out most of you who are only joining Windows beta programs just for the 'me too' and 'complimentary software'. I didn't mean to say it, but its the truth.

No reference to this nonsensical screenshot of nothing.

Perhaps, Mr. Dee you should have posted where you got the screenshot from?

http://imav8n.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/wel...in/#comment-217

When you are computer illiterate it will be rubbish to you. Besides the fact that Windows client releases build off the Windows Server codebases, the next release of Windows Server is not considered important - how weird. This is a milestone at Microsoft right now, its not an easy thing to get a build of Windows compiled and 'working'. This post is telling us, that the Company has successfully put into production a working build of the next version of Windows Server. If you people appreciated software engineering and the work developers at Microsoft put into developing the software we use everyday there would be less whining and more understanding.

I hope Microsoft filters out most of you who are only joining Windows beta programs just for the 'me too' and 'complimentary software'. I didn't mean to say it, but its the truth.

Uh yeah, it's predictable and hardly news. And the screenshot means nothing and shows nothing.

I would expect complimentary software. How else would Microsoft repay someone who helps them debug their products?

Kindly refrain from personal attacks. It reflects really poorly on your character. And to me mate, sticks and stones.

Uh yeah, it's predictable and hardly news. And the screenshot means nothing and shows nothing.

I would expect complimentary software. How else would Microsoft repay someone who helps them debug their products?

Kindly refrain from personal attacks. It reflects really poorly on your character. And to me mate, sticks and stones.

Its not predictable, we haven't heard anything concrete on Windows Server 7 except that it exist, a screen and build number proves that the developers are hard at work on it. Yeah its not spectacular news, but which news about Windows 7 right now is spectacular, we haven't seen anything major that will wow us.

If you join a Microsoft beta program voluntararily, Microsoft does not owe you one iota. Get that in your head from now, if you are planning to spend 15 months testing Windows 7 from that, I would refrain going to Microsoft Connect starting now.

I wasn't insulting you, just the comment made.

Its not predictable, we haven't heard anything concrete on Windows Server 7 except that it exist, a screen and build number proves that the developers are hard at work on it. Yeah its not spectacular news, but which news about Windows 7 right now is spectacular, we haven't seen anything major that will wow us.

If you join a Microsoft beta program voluntararily, Microsoft does not owe you one iota. Get that in your head from now, if you are planning to spend 15 months testing Windows 7 from that, I would refrain going to Microsoft Connect starting now.

I wasn't insulting you, just the comment made.

Seemed predictable to me that there would be a follow on from Windows Server 2008. But OK. We have different viewpoints. That fine.

I don't think I'm going to worry about beta testing Windows 7.

Generally I prefer to wait 12 months after a new Windows release, or SP1 before I install a new Windows on my PC.

I don't like early adoption. Early adoption = tears and grinding of teeth.

Thanks. I could have sworn I was being called a silly noob. :laugh:

That Windows logo doesn't look right, look at all the white around it.

Looks the same on Windows Server 2008. Don't expect any form of comestic changes this early in development, you probably won't see that until the first RC.

When you are computer illiterate it will be rubbish to you. Besides the fact that Windows client releases build off the Windows Server codebases,

Uhh... what?

This is a milestone at Microsoft right now, its not an easy thing to get a build of Windows compiled and 'working'. This post is telling us, that the Company has successfully put into production a working build of the next version of Windows Server.

Sigh...

From reading your posts, it seems your getting rather defensive over this... why?

I didn't want to come off that way. I was simply sharing news I found about Windows 7, albeit, the Server edition. People instead choose to misinterpret it as a hoax, they want to see something spectacularly different, when the screenshot showing the Welcome screen is just a normal example. Windows 7 client builds look pretty much like Windows Vista from what we have seen so far, so why expect any different with the Server release? People read too much into it, I was just providing information based on the development progress, a milestone right now.

If I have been offensive to anyone in this thread, my sincere apologies. If I see any other info on the net that looks like real information about Windows 7, I will just leave it like a sleeping dog.

I really expected this thread to generate some good discussion, like what do you think they will be doing with the next release, identity and management and so on.

So they took the Vista post-login, and sloppily pasted in "Windows Server 7" text.

Yeah, I'm totally convinced.

Thats normal, please check out the screenshots from my Windows Server 2008 install in VPC. It seems a lot of persons haven't seen or used Windows Server 2008 yet.

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If I have been offensive to anyone in this thread, my sincere apologies. If I see any other info on the net that looks like real information about Windows 7, I will just leave it like a sleeping dog.

I really expected this thread to generate some good discussion, like what do you think they will be doing with the next release, identity and management and so on.

sorry if the thread hasn't generated the response you were hoping for but Windows 7 discussion has already been done to death. there are pages of posts about it when we have virtually no knowledge of what it's going to be like, so if a thread provides no new information (the fact that they are working on windows 7 server is not information as it's obvious) then it isn't going to get a quality respone.

i wouldn't like to think you were put off from posting any future news about windows 7 because of this but just try and make sure it's notable news.

What does that mean?

I think. It's just a guess, but Mr. Dee is possibly an former Windows Vista tester and he is just attempting to massage his ego by pretending he's privy to information that no one else has. Therefore making himself feel superior to everyone else; which also coincidentally seems to give him the right to call others stupid if they don't feel the same way about a snippet of possibly misinterpreted information.

A :trout: to Mr. Dee.

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