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Windows 7 Beta 1 has leaked

Posted on December 28, 2008 at 07:31 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

And I can see it right now on the alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.me-beta newsgroup. It’s called working.one_microsoft.windows.7.beta.1.build.7000. I can’t vouch for the file’s authenticity – make sure the copy you get has an fsum of f9dce6ebd0a63930b44d8ae802b63825 – but it sure looks like the “gold” version of Win 7 Beta 1.

The warez sites get it before the beta testers, and Torrent traffic is undoubtedly up because of the beta. On the one hand, I bet some folks at Microsoft are furious. On the other hand, it’s a very efficient and egalitarian distribution method.

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