Paul Thurrott, for example, posted a review and screenshots of Build 7000 today on his “SuperSite for Windows” site, naming it as the Beta build.Īlthough Microsoft has promised to open the beta to all users in early 2009, it has been mum on an exact release date. Users first reported the newest Windows 7 leak on ’s forums Friday, with the opening message and screenshots coming from someone identified as “+fivestarVIP”, who said he was from Beijing, China.īuild 7000 is what Microsoft will issue next month as Windows 7 Beta, according to other reports by Windows bloggers who have copies. Just hours after the company unveiled an earlier version at its Professional Developers Conference in late October, the alpha edition hit BitTorrent. This is not the first time Windows 7 has escaped from Microsoft’s limited testing pool. Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites, including Mininova, listed the beta build as a 2.44GB download. The torrent is a disk image of the 32-bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate, Build 7000, according to users commenting on the site and elsewhere on the Internet. will release next month have leaked to the Internet, according to searches at several BitTorrent sites.Ī search on the Pirate Bay BitTorrent site, for example, returned two Windows 7 Build 7000 listings, both of which had been posted Friday.Īs of Saturday afternoon, one torrent on Pirate Bay showed more than 1,800 “seeders” – the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file – and about 8,500 “leechers,” or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. Pirated copies of a Windows 7 build pegged by many as the beta Microsoft Corp.
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