Windows 7 Leak Helps Microsoft Focus Beyond Vista

December 30th, 2008

A trial version of Microsoft ‘s upcoming Windows 7 operating system has leaked to the Internet. The blogosphere is buzzing about several sites where tech enthusiasts can download the beta Build 7000 version of the operating system.Specifically, the operating system can be found on the Pirate Bay BitTorrent site, and it has been downloaded thousands of times. A second BitTorrent site, Mininova, also has a beta version of Windows 7.

Microsoft wasn’t immediately available for comment, but the company had not planned to officially release beta copies of Windows 7 until the MSDN conference in January. A final version of the post-Vista OS is scheduled for release in late 2009 or early 2010.

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