While browsing online I found some leaked screenshots of the latest Windows 7 Milestone 3 Build 6.1.6780

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Here are a couple of youtube videos too

Windows 7 Calculator


Windows 7 lightweight WMP

Looks very Vista-ish. I wonder how long before Vista was RTM they split and started working on this?

kanaloa wrote:

Looks very Vista-ish. I wonder how long before Vista was RTM they split and started working on this?

I looked around & could not find a answer to that

It does appear that Vista is the groundwork for the next OS though as you mentioned.
I wonder when we will see the MinWin Kernal though.

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Is MinWin really the new Windows 7 kernel? Posted by Ed Bott >snip< And there’s the real take-away from this presentation. The immediate goal isn’t to trim Windows 7 to something that will fit on the head of a pin. Just remove some optional components and make the whole thing smaller and more modular than Vista, just as Server 2008 is smaller and more modular than Server 2003. If Vista’s successor in Windows 7 can trim its core space (and memory) requirements by a third or half, giving you the option to choose which components you want to run on top of that relatively lean base, that will be impressive enough for all but the most vocal Vista critics. Update: For more on this subject, check out this excellent Channel 9 interview with Mark Russinovich. At about 14:40, he addresses the confusion over MinWin and the kernel: “The word ‘kernel’ is used loosely to mean a whole bunch of different things. … The NTOS kernel is the core of Windows that runs in kernel mode, and it’s got a lot of support components around it that also run in kernel mode. And then there’s layers of system level components that run in user mode but are still a part of the core OS.If I’ve used the word ‘kernel’ around MinWin, I’m really talking about the core of the system.”

ZDNet

Another new Windows 7 build... Build 6801

http://winfuture.de/news,42818.html

shreader wrote:

Another new Windows 7 build... Build 6801 http://winfuture.de/news,42818.html

Why do the Germans get this stuff first?

phileysmiley wrote:

Why do the Germans get this stuff first?

Don't know why, I imagine real soon that will end, especially once the Tech Beta begins.

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A couple of screenys from those posted elsewhere of this new Windows 7 Enterprise build




Notice the little rectangle to the right of the task bar… hmmm

Here are a couple of Wallpapers from those posted elsewhere of this new Windows 7 build.

Nice! It's closer to what we saw demonstrated at WinHEC 2007 but still not quite as 3D.

They are Nice, I just set the second one as my desktop wallpaper.

Hopefully there will be more available soon & as you described w/ more 3D.

Whoever does their photography must love their job, LOL