Posts Tagged ‘Windows 7 Client’

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I don’t quote other news posts often but this is a pretty cool one from Neowin:

“By using this ID on the Connect site you can gain access to Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Server betas. With this connect access you can download the Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Server bits and request up to 5 keys.”

Microsoft Connect: http://connect.microsoft.com
Connect ID: WIN7-3HQW-RF74

Source: Neowin

-Stephen

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First of all, thanks to all involved at Neowin and D.Konieczny at AeroXP as they’re the two places I’m referencing to provide this summary. I wanted to write a post to provide a central location containing the information you need to obtain the beta and the public licenses Microsoft is using for them. Feel free to leave a comment if the download links are down for you and I’ll try to find new, active links to replace them with.

Windows 7 Client Beta 1 Build 7000 32-Bit: Download

Windows 7 Client Beta 1 Build 7000 x64: Download

Windows 7 Client Keys:

32-Bit:
6JKV2-QPB8H-RQ893-FW7TM-PBJ73
TQ32R-WFBDM-GFHD2-QGVMH-3P9GC
GG4MQ-MGK72-HVXFW-KHCRF-KW6KY
4HJRK-X6Q28-HWRFY-WDYHJ-K8HDH
QXV7B-K78W2-QGPR6-9FWH9-KGMM7

64-Bit:
7XRCQ-RPY28-YY9P8-R6HD8-84GH3
RFFTV-J6K7W-MHBQJ-XYMMJ-Q8DCH
482XP-6J9WR-4JXT3-VBPP6-FQF4M
JYDV8-H8VXG-74RPT-6BJPB-X42V4
D9RHV-JG8XC-C77H2-3YF6D-RYRJ9

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta 1 Build 7000 x64 Standard/Enterprise/Datacenter: Download

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta 1 Build 7000 x64 Web: Download

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta 1 Build 7000 ia64: Download

Windows Server 2008 R2 Keys:

Standard: 2T88R-MBH2C-M7V97-9HVDW-VXTGF
Enterprise: TFGPQ-J9267-T3R9G-99P7B-HXG47
Datacenter: GQJJW-4RPC9-VGW22-6VTKV-7MCC6
Web: GT8BY-FRKHB-7PB8W-GQ7YF-3DXJ6
IA64 Enterprise: CQ936-9K2T8-6GPRX-3JR9T-JF4CJ

-Stephen

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No additional words needed. Windows 7. Period. Today is THE day. This blog post is going to be updated with links to all of the images and good write-ups that are done today in regards to Windows, user experience, etc.. I’m sitting in the keynote right now waiting for Steve Sinofsky to come out and strt showing off all of the latest features of Windows 7. Today should be a most excellent day. =)

Please do yourself a favor and visit all the links below. Paul Thurrott and Tom Warren both have EXCELLENT content up full of screenshots, I believe some video, and lots of information on what you’re looking at in the screenshots. They were two attendees of the “Windows 7 Workshop;” an all day workshop that was presented to a select group of individuals on Sunday.

Unfortunately, the internet connection in here sucks where I am (in the keynote), so I won’t be blogging as much as I want to. I can’t get into my flickr page in here… bleh. Anyway, here’s one screenshot I could link to at the moment. I’ll be updating this post, so keep posted!

Paul Thurrott’s Site: WinSupersite
Tom Warren’s Review: @ Neowin

Much, much more to come over the course of the day, so keep up with this post!

-Stephen

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The Windows 7 build that PDC attendees will be given is M3 Pre-Beta build 6801. The exact build string is yet to be determined, but after doing some digging around, I think I’ve found it: Build 6801.winmain_win7m3.081020-1655

Now, just where in the world did I pull that build string from? The back of a milk carton? My butt? The Windows dev building in Redmond (I wish, lol)? Nawwwww. Microsoft threw some security updates on their site for Windows 7 a few days ago, so I downloaded them and checked out the build version of the DLL the updates replace (netutils.dll). This is the version as it exists in the DLL: 6.1.6801.4107 (winmain_win7m3.081020-1655)

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Microsoft’s build string terminology, the string reads as follows: Windows 7 M3 (Milestone 3) Build 6801 compiled in the WinMain lab on October 20, 2008 at 4:55 PM (081020-1655)

Even more interesting is that they provided a security update for three versions of the Windows 7 Pre-Beta (click each one to be taken to the download pages):

Windows 7 Pre-Beta (x86)
Windows 7 Pre-Beta x64 Edition
Windows 7 Pre-Beta for Itanium-based Systems

So, does that mean that PDC attendees will be receiving all of those versions? Perhaps! Something else left to be determined is if build 6801 will contain all SKUs or just Enterprise.

Now, something else worth noting is the following: Build 6919.fbl_fun_diag_dev(gaurava).080118-1456

That build was compiled 9 months prior to this 6801 build and is over 100 builds higher!!! This is no surprise to those of us who are familiar with the fact that not all the build labs follow the same build time line but it’s interesting to know that builds were compiled in January with that high of a build string. Oh yeah, I pulled that one out of my butt. lol. Only kidding. Seriously, though, I pulled that build string from another DLL provided by Microsoft for Windows 7 in relation to printing issues (DiagPackage.dll). You can find it here: “This troubleshooting pack detects and fixes the printer problems on Windows 7″

Well, that’s all for now! Off to pack for PDC and make last-minute preperations prior to flying out tomorrow. Don’t forget to keep up with my PDC 2008 Blog! Much, much more to come very, very soon. =)

-Stephen

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Keeping it “short ‘n sweet,” WinFuture has posted some screenshots of build 6801. Check out the image below with the spiffy new wallpaper, then go visit WinFuture via the reference link below the screenshot to see the rest of them!

Reference: WinFuture.de

-Stephen

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While the information floodgates certainly haven’t been opened on Windows 7 by Microsoft yet, it seems they’re allowing for at least a trickle. In addition to my posts regarding the updated WSPP documentation to include Windows 7 and Microsoft’s Update Catalog listing drivers available for Windows 7, Microsoft appears to be adding Windows 7 content to the MSDN Library. The fact that Microsoft seems to be slowly but surely allowing information to seep through is exciting but I’ve already noticed something that may be of particular interest to developers.

As written in the “requirements” section on the “GetUrlCacheConfigInfo Function” page (which I link to as a reference at the end of this post):

It appears that anyone who is familiar with the Winineti.h header in the GetUrlCacheConfigInfo Function will need to make a slight change to their code in Windows 7 Client and Server. While that certainly isn’t a big deal in and of itself, it looks like Microsoft is hard at work with changing things up for developers (by natural process of development, of course; not intentionally to just change things for developers). To what extent things are going to change is anyone’s guess at this point, but if you’re interested in developing for Windows 7, I would start paying close attention to the MSDN Library from here on out and try to get a hold of any Windows 7 bits I could to start fiddling around with. Such actions may help aid in lessening any learning curves present by the time Windows 7 goes gold.

Reference: INTERNET_CACHE_CONFIG_INFO Structure | GetUrlCacheConfigInfo Function

-Stephen

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Cutting straight to the point here (my oven’s preheating in preparation for corn dogs… mmm… corn dogs…), a recently updated version (dated August 19, 2008) of Microsoft’s WSPP (Workgroup Server Protocol Program) documentation contains information regarding new and modified protocols both in Windows 7 Client and Windows 7 Server. As noted in the following screenshot from said documentation, these protocols will be present in the Beta 1 release of Windows 7:

(…Time to put the corn dogs in the oven… mmm… corn dogs… brb…)

Okay, back. Now, unless you’re in the business of security or a reverse engineer or developer, most of this stuff will go over your head. If you ARE, you may find all of this information quite interesting. There are few new protocols on this list but a ton are modified up to this point… so many, in fact, that I was going to list them here, but I’m waiting for corn dogs and don’t have the patience to go through the whole list. Speaking of that, I’ll be back to finish writing this in a little bit… mmm… corn dogs…

Alright, I’m back again (I heart corn dogs). Basically, there’s a document that tells you what’s updated, what isn’t, which versions of Windows they work for, etc. For everything, there is a corresponding label which allows you to go straight to the PDF document of your choice. For instance, if you want to read into the new BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) Peer-Caching protocol for Windows 7, you can refer to PDF’s [MS-BPCR], [MS-BPAU], and [MS-BPDP]. You can find all of the PDF documents mentioned in the updated WSPP document on MSDN, searchable as individual documents or all downloadable in one large ZIP file. Links to everything are listed below. *POW!*

References: WSPP/MCPP MSDN Site | Updated WSPP Document | All WSPP PDF’s (ZIP) | All MCPP PDF’s (ZIP)

-Stephen

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On my routine Sunday drive along the internet, I ran across the Microsoft Update Catalog site. Curious as to if anyone with a client or server build of Windows 7 could check for driver updates, I decided to check for myself. While there isn’t a whole heck of a lot that’s interesting at this point (printer drivers, hardware drivers, etc.), it may be worth it to keep an eye on this site. Have a look-see for yourself by clicking on one of the two reference links below the screenshot (screenshot provided just in case MS decides to remove the Windows 7 references). Whichever link you click on, whenever the page loads, click the “Last Updated” tab to order the results by date.

Reference: Windows 7 Client Drivers | Windows 7 Server Drivers

-Stephen