To BitTorrent trackers

Mar 10, 2009 08:10 GMT  ·  By

The leaked 32-bit variant of Windows 7 Build 7048 followed the 64-bit release of the operating system's development milestone to torrent trackers. Both releases made it out of Redmond into the hands of company partners and from there in the wild where the bits are available for download for all users with a BitTorrent client. x64 Windows 7 Build 7048 was the first to be leaked, with the x86 flavor available soon after, both incorporating consistent changes specific to the evolution from Beta Build 7000 to the Release Candidate development milestone. In order to make an idea of the modifications implemented by Microsoft in Windows 7 as the next iteration of the Windows client is moving from Beta to RC you can read “Windows 7 Build 7048 100 Screenshots Gallery.”

The leaked 64-bit Windows 7 Build 7048 suffered from a small handicap, in the sense that end users could only access the extracted DVD ISO image installation files in a single package. This forced testers to perform either Windows Vista, or Windows 7 Beta and RC-branch upgrades to Windows 7 Build 7048. However, the 32-bit Windows 7 build 7048 comes packaged as the original DVD ISO, perfect for clean installations of the operating system.

Both the x86 and x64 versions of Win 7 Build 7048 feature the same development milestone tag, namely 7048-0-090219-1845. The 32-bit flavor weighs in at 2.61 GB and features the following information: CRC32: 84649CAD; MD5: 85BC597D6975E188F01B1DC011EC9639; SHA-1: BA4323984FCFCF88DA8B2479A9635A157658EE50. Microsoft has even confirmed the existence of Build 7048 through official channels, although the actual build was never referenced, by discussing the changes associated with the Turn Windows Features On or Off feature.

Reports indicate that when performing a clean install of 32-bit Windows 7 Build 7048 from the Release Candidate branch, users will be able to choose from the SKUs announced for the successor of Windows Vista. In this regard, Build 7048 of Windows 7 permits the deployment of the following editions: Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Starter and Ultimate.