Windows 7 Beta leaks

by Taylor Flatt on December 29th, 2008 at 10:12 am EDT - 326 views

Windows 7 Beta has been leaked to the internet as of this last weekend. A bunch of torrent sites have just picked up on it and the torrents are running wild.  With thousands of seeders, people who has downloaded and are now contributing to the upload rate, and thousands of leechers, people who have not downloaded it completely and are “leeching” on the seeders, one has to wonder how this happened.

It seems like Microsoft has a real problem with leaks with a lot of their good and “secret” stuff always being leaked. It might just be me, but I believe it might be on purpose to increase the hype and then get user feedback so then it can be a polished product when it does come out. So then, when people complain, they could simply say it wasn’t meant for release yet. Oh well, I suppose we will just never know.

I hope, however, that Microsoft does upgrade their IE standards to a more recent compatibility like those of Chrome and Firefox so we don’t have to make certain code changes to make everything appear right. In some cases, admins have to make 2 seperate sites and redirect based on browsers because IE has its own little world and all the other browsers are close enough together to not really throw a fit. This, I hope, will come coupled with the new system.