Windows 7 Build 7004 :: Leaked Screenshot

[Windows7]

"Windows 7 Build 7004 is live. In the context of the imminent Windows 7 public Beta release development milestone, build numbers of the next iteration of the Windows client are being joggled around with Microsoft managing to remain mute and confirm no piece of information. The silence might be deafening on the official communication channels, but the Redmond company is indeed dogfooding Windows 7 Build 7004, a version that has evolved past the 69xx build numbers associated with the pre-beta releases of the operating system, but also with the 7000 build number that has become associated with the first fully-fledged Beta of Windows Vista's successor.

Scott Wylie, Microsoft's New Zealand Director of Development and Platform Strategy, is one of the software giant's employees testing Windows 7 Build 7004. Wylie leaked the first screenshot of Windows 7 Build 7004's desktop in a post that has been removed since then, but which continues to be accessible through Google cache.

“I like the new taskbar which combines the old Quick Launch with running apps. I wish I had more control over icon size - still not big enough on my 1400 x 1050 screen to my eye. I love the fact that at long last I can change the order of running tasks on the task bar! I'm one of the small number of people who uses the auto-hide feature of the taskbar (in Vista I used a two story taskbar with Quick Launch along the top and running apps below) to provide more real estate. I'm finding this doesn't look so great with Win7 and have reverted to fixed single story. Apart from an issue where my default window color changes from transparent to black if I click on a desktop icon (maybe my video card?) I haven't encountered any problems,” Wylie added.​

“This feels like a completed OS, it doesn't say beta, to me it says almost done. The UI is noticeably more responsive, in fact the whole machine feels more snappy, lighter somehow. The new UI features (taskbar, preview windows, jumplists etc.) are really useful and unobtrusive. It will take a little while to get used to the slightly revised task switching, but I think it will be more intuitive long term,” Wylie stated.

Still, Wylie refers to Windows 7 Build 7004 as a pre-Beta version of the platform. The reference comes in contradiction with unconfirmed reports that Microsoft signed off the code for Windows 7 Beta 1 internally on December 12 with 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 as the build number. In this context, if 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 is the Beta, any 7004 Build number would place the respective Windows 7 development milestones in the post-Beta, Release Candidate branch of the operating system.


Inhouse Microsoft has already passed the Build 6.1.6995.0.081202-1120 mark, which is still pre-Beta, and reports indicate that internal Build 6.1.7004.0.081203-1830 is available to the software giant's employees. The Windows 7 Build 7004 related information Wylie removed points out that Microsoft is not yet ready to talk about details of the Windows client past 69xx builds. However, with 2008 coming to an end, 2009 will bring with it the first public Beta of Windows 7. The wait is almost over. "

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-Build-7004-100569.shtml

 

[Windows7]

 

[NormCameron]

"Windows 7 Build 7004 is live. In the context of the imminent Windows 7 public Beta release development milestone, build numbers of the next iteration of the Windows client are being joggled around with Microsoft managing to remain mute and confirm no piece of information. The silence might be deafening on the official communication channels, but the Redmond company is indeed dogfooding Windows 7 Build 7004, a version that has evolved past the 69xx build numbers associated with the pre-beta releases of the operating system, but also with the 7000 build number that has become associated with the first fully-fledged Beta of Windows Vista's successor.

Scott Wylie, Microsoft's New Zealand Director of Development and Platform Strategy, is one of the software giant's employees testing Windows 7 Build 7004. Wylie leaked the first screenshot of Windows 7 Build 7004's desktop in a post that has been removed since then, but which continues to be accessible through Google cache.

“I like the new taskbar which combines the old Quick Launch with running apps. I wish I had more control over icon size - still not big enough on my 1400 x 1050 screen to my eye. I love the fact that at long last I can change the order of running tasks on the task bar! I'm one of the small number of people who uses the auto-hide feature of the taskbar (in Vista I used a two story taskbar with Quick Launch along the top and running apps below) to provide more real estate. I'm finding this doesn't look so great with Win7 and have reverted to fixed single story. Apart from an issue where my default window color changes from transparent to black if I click on a desktop icon (maybe my video card?) I haven't encountered any problems,” Wylie added.​

“This feels like a completed OS, it doesn't say beta, to me it says almost done. The UI is noticeably more responsive, in fact the whole machine feels more snappy, lighter somehow. The new UI features (taskbar, preview windows, jumplists etc.) are really useful and unobtrusive. It will take a little while to get used to the slightly revised task switching, but I think it will be more intuitive long term,” Wylie stated.

Still, Wylie refers to Windows 7 Build 7004 as a pre-Beta version of the platform. The reference comes in contradiction with unconfirmed reports that Microsoft signed off the code for Windows 7 Beta 1 internally on December 12 with 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 as the build number. In this context, if 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 is the Beta, any 7004 Build number would place the respective Windows 7 development milestones in the post-Beta, Release Candidate branch of the operating system.


Inhouse Microsoft has already passed the Build 6.1.6995.0.081202-1120 mark, which is still pre-Beta, and reports indicate that internal Build 6.1.7004.0.081203-1830 is available to the software giant's employees. The Windows 7 Build 7004 related information Wylie removed points out that Microsoft is not yet ready to talk about details of the Windows client past 69xx builds. However, with 2008 coming to an end, 2009 will bring with it the first public Beta of Windows 7. The wait is almost over. "

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-Build-7004-100569.shtml

Thank you Sir for the thread. Very nice, mind you I'm the only one reading this, all the others are playing with their new 32bit Windows 7 Beta 7000 build.

Norm

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Thank you Sir for the thread. Very nice, mind you I'm the only one reading this, all the others are playing with their new 32bit Windows 7 Beta 7000 build.
Norm

Yes, we're having quite a good time too!










Later Ted

 

[echrada]

Stopped playing for 5 minutes to read this, thanks Ted!

 

[garysgold]

Most of us will see it, eventually. Thanks.

Gary

 

[smarteyeball]

What?! The 7000 build that just finished downloading is already superseded? Oh FFS

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Smartey.

It is generally believed that 7000 is the 'public beta' and 7004 is a version sent to dedicated partner testers; if I'm communicating this correctly.















Later :shock: Ted

 

[smarteyeball]

yes, but how long will it take for 7004 to become 'public' too

 

[JerzeyLegend]

I want those folder icons.

 

[DiamondNRG]

I swear I have seen those folder icons before as a patch to Vista... hmmm....

 

[grimreaper]

folder icons are nice lookin' ...

 

[Windows7]

Seems to be legit

Its On A Crazy Amount Of Sites

windows 7 build 7004 - Google Search

 

[mosimo]

If you are on about the folder icons they are from the Live Mesh network thingy microsoft have. I have the same ones on my xp desktop from the online folders on mesh.

I guess the 7004 build then if sent to proper beta partners will have time limits removed or extended or something compared to the public beta and some other small tweaks just to do with feedback or something. Nothing makor like missing features.

 

[johngalt]

I swear I have seen those folder icons before as a patch to Vista... hmmm....

You have - IIRC they are also part of the CrystalXP Icon set for Vista, an alternate set that I have downloaded to my computer that I was (at one time) going to use to replace the default icon set in Vista....

folder icons are nice lookin' ...

Yeah, they are....

If you are on about the folder icons they are from the Live Mesh network thingy microsoft have. I have the same ones on my xp desktop from the online folders on mesh.

I guess the 7004 build then if sent to proper beta partners will have time limits removed or extended or something compared to the public beta and some other small tweaks just to do with feedback or something. Nothing makor like missing features.

That is another place to get them - but IIRC Esveraldo made them as a part of his CrystalXP icon set as well....

 

[mosimo]

I still thnk it's live mesh folders. II think it's more liiekly to be live mesh than some patch for viista. If you are showing screen shots off of a new OS then you don't really want to change loads of stuff then screenshot it.

 

[DiamondNRG]

Maybe they contacted him about the icons? I think I saw them long before Live Mesh existed. Perhaps they chose to use them in that too?

 

[d0od]

Does anyone know the main differences between 7000 and 7004? Aside from mesh icons lol

 

[grimreaper]

it’s hard to tell the difference between .... Build 7000 is due to be beta 1, build 7004 is the next development branch of windows 7.

 

[NormCameron]

Does anyone know the main differences between 7000 and 7004? Aside from mesh icons lol

I thought it was that 7004 used Photoshop

Norm