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A Neowin forum member wrote a post outlining features for what is supposedly Windows 7 (build 6.1.6519). Almost as quick as he wrote the post he also deleted it, but not before a Neowin administrator grabbed a cached version. As expected people are questioning the integrity of the review because no photos or anything substantial was included. Here’s an overview of what was said:
- Couldn’t get Aero working because of driver issues
- Uses barely 480MB of memory after startup
- Gadgets are now integrated into Explorer
- New Gadget called Windows Media Center that shows information of what’s playing in Media Center
- Start menu has a pin next to each item to toggle pinning status
- The feedback tool hints at future Windows 7 expectations:
- Improved network connectivity that can detect what network your on and switch settings accordingly
- New Calculator, Paint, and Wordpad use WPF
- Installation takes just 10 minutes with 1 reboot
- Better battery life
- New boot screen and redesigned Vista login screen
Unfortunately we can’t disprove anything that was said because there were no pictures provided to backup the theory. I did see a Microsoft Windows employee post in the forum on that particular thread (I won’t point him out), but it wasn’t in regards to the authenticity to the Windows 7 claims.
The image above is supposedly of Windows 7 that was posted by another Neowin member, but there are a lot of things that tip it off as a fake:
- Both MSN Messenger and Internet Explorer are branded as version 12 and 11 respectively. Yeah, like they will release 4 versions of Internet Explorer by the time Windows 7 is released.
- The last time I checked MSN Messenger is now known as Windows Live Messenger.
- Windows Media Player has an old icon, and Internet Explorer’s icon is lacking the gold ring around it.
- The date says it’s Sunday, December 15th. That’s interesting because the last time December 15th landed on a Sunday was back in 2002. But you know this had to be created within the last year or two because it uses some icons that were just introduced in Vista.
Oh, and about the title of the article. I just wanted to second the motion of a Neowin member who said “Windows 7 sucks, I’ll stick with Vista! Just wanted to be the first one to say it!” 
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Isn’t it a Longhorn, and the “Windows code name 7″ is just fake text? The blue color of the window resembles the Longhorn gui design.
Wow, that title was really misleading!
I just want Windows 7 to be 64-bit only. It’s time to move on already!
PhoenixP3K, you are absolutely right about that, exactly what i think of!!
at 2009 or whenever they release it 4GB memory is already mainstream .. so there is already no need for 32-bit version.. and another thing is to unify software and drivers development to only one version.
The GUI looks intersting
It’s time for MS to just make the existing Windows actually work well, streamlined and dump all the legacy crap, like Windows 3.11 icons and Font managers. Oh, and my biggest grip about Microsoft? Release the damn thing under ONE version next time…..not 37 different versions.
All this premium ultimate home crap makes me start thinking Apple/Linux.
And one more thing: If you can’t release an OS (Vista) that copies files faster or the same as its previous version, what the ^$%#%$%#@ hell are you doing trying to develop some new fangled thing? Huh?
rant over
I second that motion, it actually looks much better than the current on in Vista and of course better than the on in Win XP.
I thought that too, but there are too many Vista icons that weren’t available until some of the public Beta builds. So it has to be from within the last two years or so.
I’m hoping for the same thing, because that’s the only way developers and manufacturers will be pushed to support it.
I don’t think that we’ll see just one version, but I would hope that they could at least get it back down to two like there initially was with XP. There should be one available for businesses, and another for the mainstream consumer. As long as consumers have just one version that they need to look at then I’ll be happy.
So how was that made?
You can do anything in Photoshop.