A new Windows 7 build that may be the first release candidate has leaked to the internet, according to several file-sharing sites.
Searches on Mininova.org, for example, found multiple copies of Windows 7 Build 7057 that were added to BitTorrent late last week. Pirated versions of both 32- and 64-bit editions are available.
The appearance of Windows 7 Build 7057 follows the leak of Build 7048 by just a week. This newest edition is the third to hit BitTorrent since Microsoft stopped offering the public beta of Windows 7.
Traffic on Build 7057 has been lively. As of midday on Friday, Mininova reported that one 32-bit BitTorrent of the operating system had been downloaded more than 37,000 times.
Screenshots of the leaked copy posted elsewhere on the web, including My Digital Life, show that the end-user licensing agreement (EULA) labels it 'Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System Release Candidate 1'.
The site, however, questioned whether Build 7057 was actually a release candidate. "A more likely scenario is that build 7048 is pre-RC or RC preview build which includes the RC1 EULA," said My Digital Life.
Neowin.net, on the other hand, posted shots of Build 7057 that indicated it would expire March 2, 2010, not the mid-summer 2009 expiration date built into the beta.
Windows 7 leaks have been a problem for Microsoft since previews were first handed out in October 2008 at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. Since then, other versions have appeared on BitTorrent, including a pirated copy of what was later released January 10 as the beta.
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Windows60 said: As you can see that the release candidate is not final and it may have some bugs in there In the final version will be as fixed However user may find some bugs in the final version of Windows 7 Microsoft will try to fix it Plus users who gave feedback to Microsoft and the ones who gave feedback in the final version of Windows 7 those feedback would also be valuable once Microsoft makes Windows 8 This Windows 7 released candidate is now more better and more bugs fixed Windows 7 Beta got some bugs I also wonder why that Windows 7 Beta crashes very often including IE8 Beta I know that it has bugs but it should crash like that Could software I use could crash it
Windows60 said: As you can see that the release candidate is not final and it may have some bugs in there In the final version will be as fixed However user may find some bugs in the final version of Windows 7 Microsoft will try to fix it Plus users who gave feedback to Microsoft and the ones who gave feedback in the final version of Windows 7 those feedback would also be valuable once Microsoft makes Windows 8 This Windows 7 released candidate is now more better and more bugs fixed Windows 7 Beta got some bugs I also wonder why that Windows 7 Beta crashes very often including IE8 Beta I know that it has bugs but it should crash like that Could software I use could crash it
jiggy said: Microsoft must come to terms that if they sell buggy software no one will want to buy it yea fair enough they send patches out but look at the size of those files dam i reach my cap after a automatic updateyea i live in a country where my line speed is 115kbs and got a 1 gig cap as thats all i can afford what about all the other people who still have a 56k dial up look im not saying pirating is good but my point is make a stable system before releasing it and make it affordable as we still have to download the patches to fix your problems