Windows 7 Pre Release beta 1 Demo by a Microsoft’s distinguished engineer
Eric Traut
Windows Blackcomb/Vienna/Seven will have another major kernel update. Maybe it will be from scratch, or just changed a lot. Who knows. But the fact remains that it will be Windows NT 7.0. Thus its name, Windows Seven.Is scheduled to make an appearance during the second half of 2009, does this mean that making the move to Vista is now a pointless effort?Windows 7 debut in 2009? Another reason to skip Vista suggests that Windows 7 is being fast-tracked.Several industry sources have confirmed to TG Daily that a very early version of Windows 7, previously code-named Blackcomb Vienna, already has been shipped to “key partners” as a “Milestone 1″ (M1) code drop for validation purposes. A roadmap received by TG Daily indicates that the new operating system will be introduced in the second half of 2009.While it has generally been believed that Windows 7 was scheduled for a 2010 debut, Microsoft has revised the roadmap and apparently moved up the release date by a few months: A recently distributed roadmap of the OS lists a release to manufacturing in H2 2009. Microsoft declined to comment on this.
First release of Windows NT: NT 3.1. It used the NT 3.1 kernel. It was named Windows NT 3.1 to coincide with Windows 3.1, which was its DOS-based counterpart. Despite similar names and interfaces, they were very different OSes on the inside, because the Windows NT kernel is not and never was based on DOS, and has been 32-bit since the start (with the exception of newer 64-bit versions).
The next releases came as NT 4. There were several products under the NT 4 kernel - Windows NT 4 Workstation, Windows NT 4 Server and more. If I recall, there was also a Windows NT 4.1
Windows 2000 followed Windows NT 4. It was technically Windows NT 5.0. Again, there were multiple releases - Win2K Professional and several server versions.
Windows XP was the next NT release. It still used the NT 5 kernel, based on Windows 2000, but was upped to Windows NT 5.1. This was the first consumer version of the Windows NT line. There was no more DOS-based windows after XP.
Windows Server 2003 in its various forms was again built on the same kernel as Windows 2000 and XP. It has NT kernel 5.2, as does Server 2003 R2 and Windows Home Server.
Windows Vista was the next major release for the NT kernel. It is Windows NT 6.0. Windows Server 2008 will be Windows NT 6.1, and some sources say that Windows Vista SP1 will upgrade to the 6.1 kernel as well.
On Channel 9, I saw one Microsoft employee insist that Windows 7 is still in the planning phase — implying that it’s only slideware at this point. But being in planning doesn’t mean that early builds do not exist. In fact, I have heard a number of Microsoft folks have Windows 7 running on their systems. Is this the alleged M1 (Milestone 1) build mentioned in TG Daily’s story? I don’t know.
I have not (yet) found folks outside of Microsoft who claim to have a build of Windows 7. Does this mean such a build doesn’t exist? No. Top OEMs tend to see pretty early builds of new versions of Windows, so if a Windows 7 build is available, I bet some PC makers have seen it.
Windows 7 Beta 1 Pre Video - ONE
Windows 7 Beta 1 Broad Display @ ViEnNA
Windows 7 Beta 1 Foundation @ M$
Windows 7 @ A Users Preview
Microsoft Windows Blackcomb Presentation ( Windows Vienna )
Windows 7 Startup Screen
Windows 7 Milestone 1. This is a 3 minute and 50 second shakycam video showing off the new Aurora bootscreen with animated progress bar as well as slight visual updates to Windows Media Center. (via AeroXP forums)
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Rumours of Windows 7 are right @ Microsoft is Planning for a new windows code name VIENNA.
Download Link Windows 7 beta 1 @ thepiratebay
