Windows 7 beta leaked on BitTorrent


	Windows 7 beta leaked on BitTorrent

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12-29-2008 12:34 PM

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12-29-2008 1:20 PM

chestnut501

Darn leecher's anyway.

I've been using Vista for over a year now with no problems at all. Before that I had the XP.

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The beta version of Microsoft's next-generation operating system has been 
  linked on peer-to-peer network BitTorrent. 
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Versions of the beta Windows 7 Ultimate - the much-anticipated replacement for 
  the problem-fraught Vista operating systems - have been in the hands of 
  testers and some media for the last two months.
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A few leaked copies of the early 'alpha' build did the P2P rounds in December.
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And now the 'Build 7000' version of the new system has found its way onto the 
  file sharing network BitTorrent, making it available for anyone to download.
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The torrent is a disk image of the 32-bit version of the system, and 
  underground site Pirate Bay is listing nearly 2000 'seeder' versions of the 
  2.44GB download.
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Seeders are users who have a full copy of the file on their computers.
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  in January as Windows 7 Beta. 
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