Rumor: an Early Build of Vista’s Successor in the Wild
In a post to the Neowin forums, a user named kenipnet, claims to have installed and tested an early build of Windows 7, the rumored successor to Windows Vista. That Microsoft is working a new version Windows is no secret, in fact we’ve heard it may be released as early as next year, but this the first time anyone has claimed to have details.
I should point out that the source here is highly suspect so take this with a grain of salt — there were no screenshots and few details. That said, one potentially very interesting element purported to be in the build is integration with Microsoft Live services.
Kenipnet says that Windows 7 allows you to sync your Internet Explorer settings with your Windows Live account for use any PC (which sounds much like Opera Link or Mozilla’s Weave) and it doesn’t seem too far fetched to think that Microsoft might add other services as well — address book sync, perhaps even document syncing.
Other noteworthy points in the review (which was deleted and dredged out the cache and reposted here) include improved performance, better network detection and an overall theme that sounds much like Vista, but further refined and polished.
Again, take this as a rumor and nothing more and keep in mind that some of the early posts about Longhorn bore absolutely no similarities to the final release of Vista. As another post on the NeoWin site points out “the laughable thing about all this is that the build is described as ‘Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1′ … Windows Seven is supposed to have this brand new MinWin kernel which is version 7.0, not 6.0 (Windows Vista) or 6.1 (Windows Server 2008).”
Still, while that casts some doubt on the report, the post also points out that the user in question, kenipnet, appears to be credible about all of his other posts on Neowin regarding past betas.
Either way the notion that Vista’s successor is already in the works should be good news for those who feel Vista is still something of a beta release.
[via I Started Somthing]
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