Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6574.1

Martin | Apr 22, 2008 | Comments

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Chinese website Think Next published several new details about the latest Windows 7 Milestone 1 release that has the internal build number 6574.1. Just a few hours after posting the new pictures, videos and information they pulled them again but thanks to caches they are still accessible. About a dozen new Windows 7 screenshots were posted as well as one new Windows 7 video and explanations that described the screenshots and videos.

All screenshots found on the website are included below, just click on one to load the image in full size. Let us hear what the original author of the article had to say about the changes in this new milestone release of Windows 7.

The installer is not greatly changed since M1 R1, only some words are updated from Vista to 7. Last time I use R1, the License Terms and SKU selection referred ‘Windows Vista’, now it’s changed to ‘Windows 7”.

The SKU selection shows these options:
Windows 7 Business, HomeBasic, HomePremium, Ultimate, HomeBasic N, Business N and Starter.
See some new SKUs are included however I don’t think these will definitively be the SKUs Windows 7 will provide. The installer program may inherit from some development tree so the SKU names are inherited also. Anyway, it’s not important to argue how many SKUs Win7 will bring to us. It’s much of business, not technology.The SKU selection uses something like a grid control, the 1st column is SKU name, and 2nd, Date Modified. For all those SKUs, the date is March 2008.

As in the M1 R1, Win7 installer automatically creates an additional 500.0 MB partition before system partition. A user doesn’t have control on this. No idea on what for. The partition doesn’t appear in My Computer but you can see it in disk management.

Other parts of the installation are same as in M1 R1.The post-installation setup wizard, may be used for performance benchmarking to determine experience index, differs from that of Vista in that Win7 removes those fancy animation pictures during the process and the time it spends on this step is much less (less than 2 minutes on my platform).

Finally, after the setup here comes the product key… Yes, you can still input a blank key. M1 R2 recognizes my G35 integrated graphic card and adapts display mode which makes my eyes comfortable at the first sight on Win7. Remember I had to find drivers for M1 R1. The user name, machine name setup windows isn’t the default Vista style, I mean, neither Basic nor Aero. See below. The font is even Arial not Vista’s default.

Changes that are noted by the author are to the search in the Start Menu which now uses the full width of the Start Menu to display search results, to the Windows Health Center, changes to Explorer layouts and to UAC which is probably one of the greatest improvements yet. When issuing multiple commands that require elevated rights Windows 7 asks the user if the wants to disable UAC temporarily.

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About the Author: Martin Brinkmann is an Online Journalist from Germany who discovered his love for technology in high school. He is currently working as a freelancer for several publications and runs his own Internet website Ghacks

  • Looks like vista :/
  • amj2008
    looking at it, it is just like the vista ultimate....
  • vinayak
    i think its really a great OS.it resembles vista
  • Windows Vista itself was bad enough, so why the heck is Microsoft even bothering to create a new OS that looks just like it? I guess when you make billions, you can do anything you want.
  • NEM
    You know it does look like Vista, but did anyone notice that it seems to be way faster in the searches? I mean the window transition between what was typed in was wicked fast, I hope that stays!
  • Me
    Um guys... of course it looks like Vista, at this point all Windows 7 is, is Vista Ultimate with a number of changes in the code. So on the surface, it will look very similar to Vista, but it will be small things at the moment that are different.
    Expect major visual changes to come later, once it actually gets into beta stage etc.

    And as a headsup, Vista had less major bugs and security issues in its first year than XP did. People seem to have rose coloured glasses when remembering XP. It was even more buggy and problematic when it first came out! it's just been on the market for around 8 years, and has had 3 service packs. Vista has been out for a little over a year.

    I find it funny also that the people who complain about how terrible Vista is, have probably never used it, or have only ever briefly tried it. I've been using it for over a year, and have no major complaints. Yes, it's more of a resource hog than XP, but what did you want? A new OS that didn't do anything more than the old one?
  • Revolutn
    "And as a headsup, Vista had less major bugs and security issues in its first year than XP did. People seem to have rose coloured glasses when remembering XP. It was even more buggy and problematic when it first came out! it’s just been on the market for around 8 years, and has had 3 service packs. Vista has been out for a little over a year."

    Which is why I stayed on W2k until nearly SP2 for XP.
    Actually W2K did everything I needed and I'd probably still be on it, if I hadn't felt compelled to upgrade at home to stay up with changes at work.

    I've used Vista and really really really really dislike it.
    I hope to be able to wait for W7 before being compelled to upgrade again.
  • yea, I think its fake. But why did they take it off so fast, maybe Microsoft contacted them and told them it can't be shown.
  • oh, and isn't it weird how they don't show a full screen shot, they only show little bits
  • NEiL
    Windows 7 will be a great OS and as for people that think Vista isin't good enough i think ur computer skills are limited to XP...well if u really hate Vista then go ahead make an OS yourself which is perfect in every way...that is if u can!!!!
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