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Windows 7 build 7127 Pre-RTM X86

Posted by Mohamed Moustafa On May - 16 - 2009

Windows 7 build 7127 Pre-RTM X86

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Windows 7 Build 7127 RTM-Branch 108-Screenshot Gallery

Posted by Mohamed Moustafa On May - 16 - 2009

Following the availability of Windows 7 Beta Build 7000, Microsoft revealed that subsequent builds belonged to the Release Candidate branch. This was made obvious with releases such as 7022, 7048, 7057 and 7077, culminating with 7100 on May 5th 2009, the fully fledged RC. Applying the same set of criteria, any builds superseding 7100 are from the RTM branch. The first one offered to third-party testers outside of Redmond via Microsoft Connect is Build 7127, a release leaked and made available for download in the wild. From RC, Windows 7 will evolve straight to RTM, the software giant has confirmed.

“We shipped a release candidate, we’ve had over 1 million downloads, we can get a very good sense of whether we have made as much progress in the product, it looks as good out there as it does in our labs, and I’m pleased to announce right now that we’re going for holiday, and we’re tracking very, very well for it,” Bill Veghte, senior vice president for Windows business at Tech•Ed 2009, stated on May 11, 2009. “If you’re waiting for Windows 7, holiday broad availability, that’s what we’re tracking for. Obviously, quality is job number one, and we will hold if we think we have quality issues. But we’re tracking very, very well to holiday.”

Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, and Jon DeVaan, senior vice president, Windows Core Operating System Division, indicated that Microsoft viewed RTM not as a point in time, but rather as a process. As Widows 7 will be released to manufacturing, the operating system will ship to PC manufacturers and will be preloaded on new machines, boxed copies will be produced for retail, and, generally, get the supply chain ready to start serving the operating system to the public. Only after the entire supply ecosystem is aligned post-RTM will the Windows 7 bits become generally available (GA).

No more functionality changes, no feature modifications going forward

In a sense, this is it for Windows 7. If you have downloaded, installed and are running Windows 7 RC Build 7100, you are essentially seeing an almost perfect approximation of the gold (RTM) development milestone. Moving onward from RC to RTM, Microsoft will not make any functionality changes to the operating system. At the same time, no extra features will be added. For the RTM, the focus will be on identifying any issues that could possibly affect the installation of the platform, security problems, and reliability and stability glitches. Tweaks will be introduced to Windows 7 to boost software and hardware compatibility and support and the updating infrastructure of the operating system will be tested. But Windows 7, as of RC, is as close to finalization as possible, with the exception of the gold build.

“It’s a phenomenal operating system. You know, I’ve been using Windows 7 on both my desktop and my laptop now for well more than six months. These guidelines, these fundamentals at the bottom of this slide where we talk about performance and reliability and compatibility have just been core fundamental concepts across the entire company as we’ve worked on Windows,” Brad Anderson, general manager, Management and Services Division, revealed at the Microsoft Management Summit, in Las Vegas, on April 29, 2009.

“I can tell you from my own personal experience, every one of my applications has just worked. I’ve not had an application that’s not working on Windows 7. The performance, I love the fact when I open up my laptop, I’m working in just a matter of seconds. To me, I take a look at this and I’m fairly critical as I look at the work that we do. And I’ve got to tell you, I love what we’ve done with Windows 7,” Anderson added.

Windows 7 Build 7127 installation
The installation process of the first RTM-branch build users got to see was of 7106, in April, 2009. In all fairness, with Build 7106 available in Chinese, many of the subtle details of the Windows 7 deployment were bound to escape end-users. Build 7127 is no different, but only because Microsoft has yet to implement any of the minute details that will scream Windows 7 RTM. In this regard, the End User License Agreement of Build 7127 still refers to the Release Candidate of the operating system. The EULA also labels the release as Win7_RC.1_Ult_NRL_en-US. Microsoft used a similar approach in the early Windows 7 RC-branch builds such as 7022, when all mentions still pointed to the Beta Build.
Windows 7 Build 7127 is one of the interim development milestones of the next iteration of Windows, and, in this sense, a step on the way to RTM. There will undoubtedly be some testers that won’t be able to stick to Windows 7 Build 7100 with Build 7127 available. But, fact is that the latest snapshot of Windows Vista’s successor will not satisfy the hunger to see more from Windows 7. It simply won’t.

And going forward, any changes, as minor as they will be, are bound to focus under-the-hood of the operating system. Microsoft is perfecting Windows 7 for general availability (GA) and is doing nothing more than to soften the rough corners of the platform. The RTM and GA milestones are ultimately dependent on quality as the main factor. Just an example of Microsoft working to avoid repeating the mistakes done with Windows Vista. One illustrative example in this regard is the effort poured into ensuring software and hardware compatibility with Windows 7.

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Vista SP2 RTM DVD ISO Images Available for Download

Posted by Mohamed Moustafa On May - 16 - 2009

Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to manufacturing on April 28, 2009. As was the case with Vista SP1, the RTM and General Availability dates failed to coincide. However, there are those lucky few that can already download and install the service pack 2 bits for Windows Vista. MSDN and TechNet subscribers got access to Vista SP2 RTM since April 30, and were also subsequently served the DVD ISO image for the second service pack for Vista.Of course, as the Windows client and server operating system updates are aligned post-SP1, Windows Vista SP2 RTM is accompanied by Windows Server 2008 SP2 RTM. In this regard, DVD ISO images for both Vista SP2 RTM and Windows Server 2008 SP2 RTM are currently available for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.

“SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 represents Microsoft’s continuing commitment to quality. While most updates contained in SP2 are available as individual downloads, the roll-up convenience of SP2 is a major benefit for administrators. This functionality coupled with new advanced deployment features, such as the single installer and the pre-installation analyzer, means SP2 continues to provide ongoing improvements that our customers have grown to expect from Microsoft,” the Redmond-based company revealed in the Notable Changes in Vista SP2 documentation.

Microsoft has yet to reveal the date at which the public will get access to the final bits of Vista SP2. With the release to manufacturing of Vista SP2, the software giant only mentioned that the service pack would start being served to users in the second quarter of 2009. However, end users will only get SP2 as an update, designed to integrate on top of an existing installation of Vista, and not as a DVD ISO image. Meanwhile, Vista SP2 has been leaked and made available for download from various third parties, including torrent websites.

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Microsoft Windows Vista Business With SP2 x86×64

Posted by Mohamed Moustafa On May - 13 - 2009

Microsoft Windows Vista Business With SP2 x86×64 | 5.3 GB

Windows Vista Business with Service Pack 2 is the first edition of Windows designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses. You’ll spend less time on technology support-related issues-so you can spend more time making your business successful. Windows Vista Business with Service Pack 2 is the definitive choice for your business today and tomorrow.

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Windows 7 Boxes – Packaging Design

Posted by Mohamed Moustafa On May - 11 - 2009

With the Release Candidate of Windows 7 available for public download, Microsoft has moved onward with the development of the operating system. The next stage in the evolution of the next iteration of the Windows client is RTM. Only after Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing will the platform hit the shelves, marking General Availability. A critical aspect of GA is the packagings for the retail versions of Windows 7. While Microsoft has yet to make public the official design for the Windows 7 retail boxes, there are box concepts available in the wild.The Redmond company has yet to confirm or deny that the Windows 7 boxes from CentrumXP are real. Claims have indeed been made supporting their authenticity, but fact is that the designs have to be taken with a grain of salt, as there is no word from Microsoft supporting their validity. And chances are that they could be fake. The designs for Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate are featured in the images accompanying this article, along with the Anytime Upgrade boxes for Starter to Home Premium, Home Basic to Home Premium, Home Premium to Ultimate, and Home Premium to Professional.

The Windows 7 packagings style is the same as that for Windows Vista. If the images prove indeed to be real, it appears that Microsoft has opted to continue on the same line as that for Windows Vista, an easy way for the company to transmit to consumers that Windows 7 is an evolution of Vista. The actual design follows the simplicity of Vista’s with minimal information delivered on the front end of the box – just the name of the operating system along with the traditional logo, the Microsoft trademark, and a stylized Windows logo. In this manner, the Windows 7 boxes are extremely similar to those of Vista.

Microsoft revealed Vista’s packagings at the end of October 2006, a full three months before the operating system’s GA deadline, which was in January 2007. The already finalized Windows 7 design concepts and boxes can only mean for Microsoft that the company is approaching RTM and GA at fast pace.

32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 (Release Candidate) RC Build 7100.0.090421-1700 is available for download here.

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