Windows 7 leaked to pirates

A fuel fresh issue of a pre-beta version of Windows 7 has ended up in the pirate's hands.

It is the well-known Windows Network WinBeta that have made Windows 7 available for curious pirates. Filstørrelsen er på 3.6GB pakket. The file size of 3.6GB packed.

Already in January was a very early version of Windows 7 leaked to the web. Denne gang var det ingen som var særlig imponerte, da mange av de store endringene enda ikke var implementert. This time, there was no one who was particularly impressed when many of the big changes were not yet implemented.

[Rob0g0rilla]

Amazing, these guys are fast....

http://cristgaming.com/pira...

[Rofflecopter]

very fast, but then again fallout3 and other games coming out before launch is fast too..

anyways, i wonder how much my computer will suffer with W7 running..

[pwnsause]

well someone is going to get fired for that.

[TheIneffableBob]

Build 6081 was distributed to the press and I believe is available on MSDN. A leak was inevitable and I'm sure Microsoft knew it.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Ouch..

[theEnemy]

Pirates = Beta Testers

lol

[moja]

Hah! You had me laugh out loud on that one.

[ThanatosDMC]

Check out the youtube vids. It reminds me of Mac's OS.

[Cheeseknight28]

Desktop looks pretty meh. I'll stick with Vista.

[Kholinar]

Everything else seems to be much better. I listened to a podcast this weekend with a lot of developers and they're saying it's dramatically better.

Though, if you're a gamer there's not a lot of change in that area.

This is a massive code cleanup. I'd be tempted.

[gta_cb]

laugh ^^ as normally that sentence would end with "XP" =p

[White-Sharingan]

every time I hear pirating; the first thing to come to my mind is microsoft

[TheIneffableBob]

This is build 6081, not the build with all the fancy features that they showed off. A new build is supposed to be released to the public in January 2009, I believe.

[comm13]

lol

[CloudsEnd]

Lol Big Fail!
Ill stick with my good ol XP...

[robotnik]

lol, that was fast.

[LeeZer]

is this really a gaming story? and second big wup, every M$ os gets leaked way before the release date. this build has none of the new features and you'll have compatibility problems of course with drivers etc

[lwsbrck]

new taskbar icons look like a play on the dock in OSX, but i do like the roll over to preview (like in vista)

I'm quite glad the interface is barely different from Vista, perhaps they will make it actually work rather than just make it look good tis time around?

[Zip]

lol wtf .... half of it is in Danish (My country) lol

[Moentjers]

just calm down, wow, I'm just curious for the new OS: how it looks how it feels... not that I'm going to sell this pre-beta (who would want to give money for it anyway...).

[strotee]

That is such a redundant title. Who else would it be leaked to? Barbers? Produce managers? Bakers? Of course it gets leaked to pirates.

[J8M7G]

Didn't think pirates liked leaks...
That was bad i know.
Im sorry.

I'll get my coat.

[El_Colombiano]

haha

[Jacobite]

lol witty

[Cra1g]

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[tigerstyle]

Old news. Anyone wants it? just message me if you can... its OLD news. They have 64bit and 32bit. Its pretty damn large download. Might wanna get your hands on rapidshare ;) cuz your going to need it... big time LOL.

Also, this is a ISO so its DVD ripped. After you download it, you will need to burn it on a DVD as a .iso using Alcohol 120 or Nero or w.e

So yea. Pretty sick alright ;)

[J8M7G]

its on newzbin an only takes like 2-3 mins to dload.
but u will need this to unlock full features:
Simply download a copy of a tool I whipped up for either x86 or x64 (untested thus far), drop it into your Windows\ directory and execute the following commands as an Administrator in a command prompt window:

* takeown /f %windir%\explorer.exe
* cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G “%USERNAME%”:F
* taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
* cd %windir%
* start unlockProtectedFeatures.exe