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Looks like the first external post-RC Windows 7 build has leaked.
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So...if Windows 7 is in the 7100 arena...what would push it to a 7200 status? How big of a change has to take place to get the release to the next 7000-level?
Microsoft has made outstanding progress with Windows 7.
Soon, those Crapintosh commercials will be a distant memory and we'll all enjoy another 10 years of this being the year of linux on the desktop.
JamesNT
gotta love the Chinese they don't keep anything a secret, now we need the usual screen shots and performance review from ya Paul :)
That's cause the basic foundation of the communist is sharing everything, except your wife..... though in some cases that is shared as well....
Fuzzdad -- there are no "levels" of build numbers, despite what you might read. Most of the time they simply increment it by one each time they do a build. However occasionally they "jump up", usually after branching, to leave room for the prior branch to have its own increments.
For example, prior to 7000, there were winmain builds in the 69xx's. Then when branching for beta, they jumped winmain past 7000 (7003 I think?), however the beta builds kept going in the 69xx's. When it came time to release beta, they articially bumped it to a nice round 7000.
They did something similar with RC -- jumped winmain to 7105, then kept incrementing the RC builds until artificially snapping it to 7100.
We may see something similar with 7200 and RTM. Or if it passes 7200 on its own, then maybe 7300. Or maybe they'll bump it up to something more seveny like 7700 or 7777, but I doubt it.
But the point is that 7000 itself wasn't anything special, only the next hundred. In fact I'm betting Microsoft wishes they hadn't skipped so many builds earlier (surely there weren't 500 builds between Vista (build 6000) and the first Win7 leaked build (6519)) -- surely they wish they'd have ended up on build 7000 as the final RTM build.
@bdizzel: I second that (well, the part about Paul putting up some screenshots and review).
