Today, Ars Technica reported that screenshots of Windows 7 build 7077 have begun to appear on the web and, apparently, the 32-bit version of the build is available on several websites. According to one of their sources, there are no noticeable differences between the 7068 builds and the 707x builds. However, one notable change is that in the “About Windows” dialog box, an actual build string is no longer present as was in previous interim builds. Now, it simply says “Version 6.1 (Build 7077).” The only other build that was missing the build string was the beta build released to the public. So, this definitely indicates they are getting very close the Release Candidate build and are tidying up things accordingly.
Microsoft is expected to deliver a new build to testers this month, and a public Release Candidate build is coming in May.
Tue, Apr 7, 2009
Windows