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    Wednesday, September 3, 2008

    Windows 7 silliness

    Microsoft had launched a preview version of its next version of its OS , Windows 7 code named “Vienna” (version 6.1.6574.1) sometime in April among various employees, OEM’s and developers.  So, a few days later, torrents of this Milestone build started showing up in popular torrent and other P2P sites. This had sparked a lot of curiosity among various users who then promptly tried to download the ISO image of it which was approximately 2.15 Gb. However,they were unable to mount the ISO file or burn it to a DVD. Later, it was discovered that the ISO contained only zeroes and it was a fake torrent. I guess the Windows 7 leak was a hoax after all.

    You can read about  Windows 7 as well as other technologies of Microsoft in Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows.

    www.winsupersite.com

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