Windows 7, a beta of it’s up and coming operating system, has reportedly been leaked on BitTorrent.
Beta testers and some media outlets have apparently had access to Windows 7 for some time now, but the recent beta release of Microsofts next generation operating system has been leaked onto BitTorrent sites like The Pirate Bay.
The New Zealand Morning Herald reported on the story recently. From the report:
A few leaked copies of the early ‘alpha’ build did the P2P rounds in December.
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.
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.
Windows bloggers say that the pirated build is the version that will be issued in January as Windows 7 Beta.
This latest leak seems to follow the standard tradition of how a Windows operating system is distributed (albeit, without authorization no doubt). An early version of the release is posted, then Beta testers test the new operating system, then a final version is released where some users are able to tell what has been stripped out. It’s happen for vista back when it was called Longhorn and it appears to be happening with the latest version of Windows.
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