[Liskiller]

Yesterday Razor VinT posted a screenshot of Windows 7 build 7068 which he obtained from a Japanese website. Today the same build leaked on the torrent websites.

This is a screenshot form Mininova:


The users who have downloaded the ISO DVD have reported that the torrent is genuine and the build is indeed 7068.

I'm wondering who is behind all these leaks? The torrent appears less than a week after 7068's build date - March 21, 2009. Is Microsoft itself is responsible?

[Most_Wanted]

of coz Microsoft behind all these leak...1000%

[Frank2d]

Of course M$...probably M$ Japan or M$ Ukraine (like in build 7022)

[Eye Pie Rate]

MS all the way.

[getmanan]

why would MS do dat?? can anyone explain?

[steven28]

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why would MS do dat?? can anyone explain?

It is possible in many ways!

1. The keys given for build 7000 from M$ still works in this version (7068)

and for activation, windows have to connect to M$ servers and M$ servers gets the full details of your PC before activation ( your OS version, system builts etc...) so am sure M$ must be aware of the number of activation occurring

so if it's not them who leaked it, then they could have easily blocked the usage of the build 7000 keys on later builds

[USG Ishimura]

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why would MS do dat?? can anyone explain?

Because this way Microsoft will get more testers and bug reports. All of use who download and use these build and unofficial testers.

[Eye Pie Rate]

Not to mention hype.

[Syzygy]

Cheap marketing.

[Frank2d]

Yep.

[Vaer0]

Why dont microsoft just give us a download link on the win7 page?

[steven28]

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Why dont microsoft just give us a download link on the win7 page?

Bandwidth and server resources could be the reason

[Vaer0]

steven28, on Mar 28 2009, 11:18 PM, said:

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Why dont microsoft just give us a download link on the win7 page?

Bandwidth and server resources could be the reason

With the money microsoft has, im sure they could just added more

[WhistAler]

Hype

[Frank2d]

Microsoft employees are money lovers