14 DAY TRIAL // Build 7232 has joined the rest of the Windows 7 development milestones that, once out of Redmond, have made their way onto torrent trackers and warez websites. As it is getting closer to the RTM of its next iteration of the Windows client, Microsoft continues to supply partners and Technology Adoption Program testers with interim builds of Windows 7, as it is signing off the code. The latest release to make it out into the wild is Windows 7 Build 7232, now available for download via various illegal third-party sources including top torrent trackers.
Windows 7 has evolved up to Build 6.1.7232.0.winmain.090610-1900, with Microsoft having wrapped up the milestone on June 10th, 2009, according to Wzor. The company continues to make public no details related to the evolution of Windows 7 from Release Candidate Build 7100 to RTM (reportedly Build 7300 – this needs to be taken with a grain of salt, as it has in no way been confirmed), but the leaked copy of Windows 7 Build 7232 is sufficient proof that the software giant is hard at work making its way toward the RTM milestone of Windows Vista's successor.
The past week, three releases of Windows 7 were leaked: Build 7227, Build 7229 and Build 7231. Two of the three, namely, Build 7227 and 7231, were packaged not as ISO images (as Build 7229) but as .VHD (virtual hard disk) images designed to be run inside a virtual machine. The same is the case for Windows 7 Build 7232. Still, with Build 7232, Microsoft is reportedly getting closer and closer to the RTM-Escrow, a milestone after which the company will focus entirely on getting the code ready to go gold in the second half of July 2009, with no more changes planned.
Only the 64-bit (x64) flavor of Windows 7 Build 6.1.7232.0.winmain.090610-1900 was leaked and, just as 7227 and 7231, it comes as a .VHD image file, accompanied by the following information CRC: 5723B24B; MD5: F47C13D2FD1D94F5A2E9A0A85BA0B5D0; SHA1: 8BB2AB688698AE503794F02C29C629131FF0160C.