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According to Canouna, one of the important source for Windows 8 builds have stated that build 79XX was a part of Milestone 2 and build 78XX was a part of Windows 8 Milestone 1. Here is what he posted on Russian site winreview.ru -

Windows 7 Post-RTM: 6.1.77xx.0.winmain.xxxxxx-xxxx

Windows 8 Milestone 1: ?6.2.78xx.0.winmain_win8m1.xxxxxx-xxxx

Windows 8 Milestone 2: 6.2.79xx.0.winmain_win8m2.xxxxxx-xxxx

We have already posted a couple of builds in 79XX series-

6.2.7901.0.101210-1755

6.2.7902.0.101213-1745

6.2.7903.0.101215-2325

6.2.7904.0.101216-1845

and also information about one build in 78XX series is available- 6.2.7891.X.XXXXXX-XXXX

The last build whose info was available was Build 7904 which was compiled on 16th December 2010. It would be interesting to note when the Microsoft comes out during CES 2011.

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Alpha or early milestone builds like these don't show anything different UI wise and they could even be unstable depending on the code changes they might have. It'd be good to give it a go on a spare system or a VM but I wouldn't bother with it on a main work system till at least beta 1.

MS kept the version number as 6.x for Win7 instead of making it 7.0 for compatibility reasons since apps and mostly hardware drivers check the OS version before they install. This way there's no breaking of things for really no reason since drivers and apps that run on Windows Vista (6.0) will run just fine under Windows 7 and probably even windows 8 as well.

MS kept the version number as 6.x for Win7 instead of making it 7.0 for compatibility reasons since apps and mostly hardware drivers check the OS version before they install. This way there's no breaking of things for really no reason since drivers and apps that run on Windows Vista (6.0) will run just fine under Windows 7 and probably even windows 8 as well.

That's interesting because Windows 8 is mean't to be a major release while Windows 7 wasn't. It's too early to say that they won't bump up the version numbering because they could.

funny how win 8 is really windows version 6.2

So technically build onto Windows 7 and now a supernew kernel-build (I guess at least...)

Edit:

I might be wrong here...

That's interesting because Windows 8 is mean't to be a major release while Windows 7 wasn't. It's too early to say that they won't bump up the version numbering because they could.

I doubt current builds have any new ui yet...so waiting for builds with ui changes.

You're right. Usually the milestone and pre-beta UI will be largely unchanged. Expect any UI changes to be implemented closer to the public beta than a first leak.

Didn't realise SBS 2011 builds were now being considered as M2 Windows 8 builds. No-one has provided any solid proof of these so called builds at all and yet people are willing to believe some russian forums and unknown forums :/

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Didn't realise SBS 2011 builds were now being considered as M2 Windows 8 builds. No-one has provided any solid proof of these so called builds at all and yet people are willing to believe some russian forums and unknown forums :/

Tom - Its the internet lol, all of this news could have come from a talking parrot but as long as its in "Print" then its considered journalism.

I can't believe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8 still forwards to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History of Microsoft Windows#Windows_8, which only contains:

Windows 8 is expected to be released in 2012 or later.
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