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In the chinese community, there were a few fakes like the 7014, but apparently this pics were posted by a reputable member, and has been promised to be seeded soon..

The chinese hate fakes as much as we do..:laugh:

I was just at BBS.PCBETA.COM...what a hoot! They seem even less impatient for someone to seed. There's a good deal of humor in play there as well, which is even apparent after a Google translation. It seems some things are just universal.

If the Chinese only knew how butt ugly their site looks.

Over time, I've come to see that Chinese, and Japanese, maybe East Asian sites in general always flowed a different way. It's probably a different design aesthetic or something. Whatever it is, it doesn't look particularly, "Ugly" to me.

I don't know what Microsoft's doing, but we've seen only 3 builds of Windows 7 the last year or so, and now suddenly there's 7000, 7004 and 7012 (and some sites have a probably faked 7014)... I wonder what's causing this extensive leaking at Microsoft...

Here's what was with Windows Vista.

Beta

Windows Vista Beta 1 Build 5112 (build date of July 20, 2005) released on July 27, 2005

Windows Vista Beta 2 Preview Build 5381 (build date of May 1, 2006) released/leaked May 3, 2006

Windows Vista Beta 2 Build 5384 (build date of May 18, 2006) released on May 23, 2006

RCs

Windows Vista Pre-RC1 Build 5456 (build date of June 20, 2006) released on June 24, 2006

Windows Vista Pre-RC1 Refresh 1 Build 5472 (build date of July 13, 2006) released on July 17, 2006

Windows Vista Pre-RC1 Refresh 2 Build 5536 (build date of August 21, 2006) released on August 24, 2006

Windows Vista RC1 Build 5600.16384 (Build date of August 29, 2006) released on September 6, 2006

Windows Vista Pre-RC2 Build 5700 (build date of August 10, 2006)

Windows Vista Pre-RC2 Build 5728 (build date of September 17, 2006) released on September 22, 2006

Windows Vista RC2 Build 5744.16384 (build date of October 3, 2006) released on October 6, 2006

Pre-RTM

Windows Vista Pre-RTM Build 5808 (build date of October 12, 2006) released on October 19, 2006

Windows Vista Pre-RTM Build 5824 (build date of October 17, 2006)

Windows Vista Pre-RTM Build 5840 (build date of October 18, 2006)

CTPs

September CTP(1) Build 5219 (build date of August 30, 2005) released on September 13, 2005

October CTP(2) Build 5231 (build date of October 4, 2005) released on October 17, 2005

December CTP Build 5270 (build date of December 14, 2005) released on December 19, 2005

February CTP Build 5308 (build of date of February 17, 2006) released on February 22, 2006

February CTP Refresh Build 5342 (build date of March 21, 2006) released on March 24, 2006

TAP build (skipped November CTP)

Build 5259 (built of November 17, 2005) release on November 22, 2005

April EDW Build 5365 (built on April 19, 2006) released on April 21, 2006

Windows Vista RTM Build 6000.16386 (build date of November 1, 2006) released on November 8, 2006....After 5 years development :p

But this is just an indication of how Microsoft was with during Vista testing during beta and post beta 1.

Desktop gadgets? ClearTypeText Tuner? System icons? Credential Manager?

What's that? I know sidebar gadgets, cleartype on/off, System icons - what does this button do? Credential manager - em... dunno.

System icons allows you to turn off the stuff in the system tray such as Clock, Volume, Network, Action Center, etc.

Credential Manager allows you to store your logins and passwords for websites and such.

What about this?

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At best, it looks like a internal download screen? Once again it looks like beta will be build 7000 and finished on 12/12/08. Considering the file post dates are 12/22/08 might mean the last 10 days was QA period. Who knows, I could talking a bunch of crap.

I might be the only person who actually used sleep. Microsoft tried to push sleep because it is a pretty low power state with an instant boot time.

Seems like a half baked work around for something that should be solved rather than ignored - as with the case of pushing sleep onto end users.

I guess not all configs work well with it, or some people just hated it?

People don't like it simply because they thought they were turning off their computer (to save power) only to find that it wasn't happening. I don't know about you, but some of us here actually have to pay the electricity bill - and I certainly don't want to be paying for appliances I thought were actually turned off (when they weren't).

You may not think there is much power used; but imagine several hundred thousand computers put into sleep and the power consumed.

And many people set their PC's to sleep (thinking it's shutting down), then unplug it, and when they boot it up again it gives all these funky wrong shutdown messages, and you never know what the average Joe does when they keep getting the same error messages...

So far, I've not had 7 forget a setting once...so far.

..so maybe..they fixed it!

Yes this was fixed in Win7 and Vista SP2, although I think a related fix (increasing the number of remembered folders) won't be in the Win7 Beta release (but will be in later releases).

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