There has been a little hype for the last couple of days regarding a supposedly leaked version of Windows 7 Milestone 1, the nest version of Windows that will replace Windows Vista in the future.

A few monts ago i read about a demonstration of the new Kernel of Windows 7. It is called MinWin and you can read about it and see a video showing it here.

According to a Neowin user, he or she tried it and posted this:

[Over the weekend I finally managed to play with the build…. but disappointed.

One my primary machine, it asked for my SATA driver (never happened when installing Vista, as my drives were set as IDE in BIOS). After adding the driver from my USB thumb drive it would finally install. It didn’t boot after first restart, however.

On my laptop it installed perfectly, but with no driver support for the video card. After numerous tries I gave up in the end, so Aero is now left in the dark.

Oh well, so there’s nothing to show...

The build is 6.1.6519.

The GUI, as much of you have guessed, is very much like Vista. I don’t know if once the right video card driver is in place whether there will be flashy stuffs to surprise me. The system is very responsive, using barely 480MB of memory after boot]….

If you are interested you can read more details and all the discusion here.

I already downloaded an ISO image file of this build but i haven’t tried it yet.

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