Windows 7 RC2 is a fake!
Many sites report that a Windows 7 RC2 is about to be released on June 11.
Even Windows7News.com fell for this bad joke and posted two videos of RC2.
Obviously, all of this is a fake. Microsoft clearly stated that there will be no RC2.
Here are parts of the fake changelog:
Changelog:
– Taskbar can now lock any program
– Dynamic Mouse-over effects for all taskbar icons
– New Aero Diamond Theme
– Feature: Change the login screen background
– More Aero Glass effects
– Support for one-click upload of photos, videos, documents, etc to sites like Facebook and Imageshack (sites will be configurable)
– WinFS filesystem will replace NTFS
– .net framework support for the Explorer for enhanced performance
– Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish keyboard settings will be integrated (by default?)
Just one quote from Wikipedia will show you that all of this is a great fake:
WinFS was billed as one of the pillars of the “Longhorn” wave of technologies, and would ship as part of the next version of Windows. It was subsequently decided that WinFS would ship after the release of Windows Vista, but those plans were shelved in June 2006, with some of its component technologies being integrated into upcoming releases of ADO.NET and Microsoft SQL Server.[3]
For all of you who don’t know it, Longhorn was once the codename for Windows 7 Vista.
Fake Changelog:
You can find the fake changelog on this chinese site: http://cnbeta.com/articles/85477.htm
Fake Videos of RC2
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Longhorn was and always will be the codename for Vista, not Windows 7.
“Windows 7” was the codename for Windows 7
Just to let you know, Longhorn was the codename for Vista; not windows 7 as you have written.
Right you are, just wanted to see if you are paying attention :P
Hehe, well Windows 7 was the codename once and became the real name in the end. But it doesn’t really matter .. it’s still a fake
Code names for windows 7:
1. Blackcomb
2. Vienna
3. Windows 7
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Windows_versions
windows 7 and vista is the same retard garbage system it has constant BSOD crashes. its got the same startup bar as vista just changed around and the new Super theam bar was stolen by microshit from MAC. i think mac should sue the hell out of crappy microshit for ruining theire wonderfull lookinbg startup bar and stealing it. microshot stole Windows from mac a long time ago and thire highly paid lawyers lied for microshit and microshit got away with theft. thus Windows Or as it should have been called Stolen Mac OSX was born and sucks verry bad has always sucked
@ Edward Young
Looks like someone forgot to take their pills this morning.
@Edward:
If Windows “stole” Mac OSX, why was the initial version of Windows released in November 1985, and the first iteration of Mac OSX released in 1999, nearly 15 years later? I will admit that Microsoft has taken inspiration from the look and feel of Mac OSX and incorporated that look into Windows Vista and Windows 7; however, elements from KDE and Gnome have also made their way into versions of Windows for years.
And, if Microsoft HAD actually stolen from Mac OS, I have a feeling Apple’s highly paid lawyers would have taken quite a large bite out of Microsoft… ;)
My My… proof that a better percentage of what can be read on the internet is not born from fact.
For those who either remember or would simply take the time to investigate it a bit, the reason Microsoft won the suit (which carried on for years) that was brought against them by Apple for the theft of the look and feel of the Mac OS was NOT because of all the attorneys that M$ could muster up… tho it was certainly monetarily beneficial to the attorneys as it always is… but that more practical head prevailed and the obvious was brought to light. That is, that Apple stole the EXACT look and feel from Xerox who invented the GUI in the first place. Apple didn’t just take it and weave it as there own such as M$ is notorious for… we all know M$ is a marketing company first not a development company… but Apple didn’t even alter the look and feel so as to suggest they came up with it on their own… they actually took Xerox’s look and feel verbatim.
Having cut my teeth on the original apple ][ computers/CPM/DOS 3.3 as well as PC/MS DOS 1.0 and subsequently Windows 1.0 I’ve seen a considerable amount of technical evolution in the desktop world over the years. M$ has never put out a software product or OS that didn’t originate as a ‘copy’ of someone elses product which they then made their own and they damn sure haven’t put out a product that was tight and not full of holes. I would typically be the last one to toot the horn of M$. Having said that… We have been beta testing Windows 7 since it’s release, have placed it on multiple platforms from tablets to quad systems… and I have found it to be impeccable on many fronts.
For the first time since it’s introduction… M$ may have finally gotten Windows right. Over the number of months we have evaluated this product… we have NEVER experienced a BSOD nor have we found any software/hardware that Windows7 couldn’t be tweaked within to work with that software or hardware. Does that mean that there isn’t software or hardware that is completely incompatible? No… but in this day and age, that is simply amazing and we have yet to find any that isn’t. Further, it is much faster, cleaner, and while M$ has had a hell of a time keeping up with MAC regarding the beloved GUI interface… they are as close as they have ever been to mimicking it… which in the end… is all the end user cares about. After all… the majority of consumers never bought anything because it worked… they bought it because it LOOKED ‘snazzy’.
I have been enjoying immensely my Windows 7 on an HP tablet (TC1100 about 6 years old) where everything is not only functional but the pen based features are much enhanced… to my ‘built to the hilt’ quad core workstation with 4 monitors. For the first time since DOS… I haven’t had to spend my time chasing a crashed OS but rather have been able to actually ‘compute’ and be more productive then not. I really can’t wait to get my customers set up on Windows 7 when the final is released.
Final thoughts… man… this is sounding like a paid endorsement…. I wish. While Windows 7 is in my opinion the best Windows to be released… with the increased security implementations… it can be one bear of a system to deal with if you are accustomed to having free reign of your file/network environment. There is a lot to learn and get used to… much which is way beyond a typical Word/Excel user or Internet surfer…. but if you’ve been waiting for something that works right out of the box… this is it.
Anyway… there is my 3 cents.