Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, revealed at PDC 2008 that, following the Beta phase, Windows 7 would move to Release Candidate and then to RTM. In fact, as early as January 13, DVDs with Windows 7 Beta will be ready to ship to MSDN Developer Conference (MDC) participants. Microsoft has already confirmed that the Windows 7 Beta bits are just around the corner. In this context, the video of the new boot screen menu will deliver a taste of what is to come in the first fully-fledged Beta of Windows 7. While Build 6801 is now widely available to the public, as the bits have been leaked and made available for download via torrent websites, this is not the case with Windows 7 Build 6951, 69. According to a performance test by ZDNet, Windows 7 Beta beat both Windows XP and Vista in several key areas including.

On December 27, 2008, the Windows 7 Beta was leaked onto the Internet via BitTorrent. With Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3 released at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 and at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2008 in Los Angels, the Redmond company produced Build 6936 and then moved to the Builds 695x series. Copies of Windows 7 build 6801 were distributed at the end of the conference however, the demonstrated taskbar was disabled in this build. of 2 1 2 Next > LUg MDL Junior Member. Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by LUg, Nov 25, 2008. There is no telling, at this point in time, if this will be the effect that will welcome Windows 7 users on every boot, or if Microsoft will continue to tweak the startup screen for the final release of the operating system. Windows 7 (Build 6801) Is there a way to remove the timebomb. Instead, four spheres with the traditional colors of the Windows brand come together and form an animated version of the logo. The video embedded at the bottom of this article, courtesy of GeekSmack, features the boot animation associated with builds 695x of Windows 7.Īs you can see, the Starting Windows portion of the startup process is no longer a barren, black screen. The new boot screen that will welcome users in Windows 7 has been introduced in the development releases of the operating system past pre-Beta Build 6801. Along with the under-the-hood evolution, the new graphical user interface of Windows 7 and the new boot screen are illustrative examples of how the early builds of Windows 7 are evolving past Vista. This build is set to expire on J(+289 days). Before you install Windows 7 (Build 6910) (Pre-Beta), you'll need to set the BIOS date back to September 16, 2008.

This build is set to expire on J(+291 days). Fact is, that between Milestone 2 and Milestone 3 of the next iteration of the Windows client, the Redmond company has moved away from Windows Vista, as Windows 7 copies resemble less and less their precursor. Before you install Windows 7 (Build 6801) (M3), you'll need to set the BIOS date back to September 14, 2008. Moving onward with the development of Windows 7 from the pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3 stage, Microsoft has overhauled the boot screen of the operating system.