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Error: Build 7041 Not 7048!

Submitted by Kenneth Pennington on Thursday, 19 February 20096 Comments

Regarding an article about the first build in the release candidate branch, Geeksmack has now gone back on their original findings about a build 7048 and said the build they were really referring to was 7041.

Geeksmack writes:

When we said that build 7048.winmain_win7rc1.090211-1625 was compiled, we meant build 7041.winmain.090211-xxxx. We are unsure of the exact time that the build was compiled, but it was compiled on February 11th, and, according to the build tag, this isn’t in the RC branch of builds.

ArsTechnica reported that their sources had confirmed that a build 7048 is nonexistent.

ArsTechnica writes:

I have confirmed with a Microsoft employee that build 7048 does not yet exist, and that development on the RC branch has not yet started.

According to them, the latest build is a build 7046 which was just compiled on the 17th. This build is not yet a part of the release candidate branch. The latest build we have screenshots of is still build 7032.

Update: A quote from Steve Sinofsky, Senior Vice President of Windows & Windows Live Engineering Group, on the matter: “But by far the most humorous element has been that the build numbers blogged about are higher than our current build.”

Update: Build 7048 confirmed… here are some Windows 7 build 7048 screenshots.

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Windows 7 Forums said:

Windows 7 RC…

Just a little update: Build 7048 is a Fake

The latest build is actually build 7046, and it is NOT on the release candidate branch like we thought 7048 was…….

- 20 February 2009 at 1:05 am

Windows 7 RC1 Build 7048 is Fake may be 7041 or 7046. | iHackintosh said:

[...] we talked about Windows 7 RC1 build 7048 which was rumored to be released a group of Beta Tester. Win7info a dedicated Windows 7 blog reveals that the actual build was 7041 not 7048. According to [...]

- 20 February 2009 at 1:16 pm

KingofSwing said:

Very confusing situation it’s confirmed that it wasn’t 7048 now there are two build tags 7041 and 7046

- 20 February 2009 at 1:19 pm

Windows 7 Build 7048 Screenshots | Window7s said:

[...] reporting the existence of a build 7048 of Microsoft’s Windows 7 before it was created (see: Build 7048 is a Fake). But now, reporters have been righted by the turning up of new screenshots of the 7048 build. The [...]

- 8 March 2009 at 3:51 am

Naughty Minds Tease With Fake Windows RC1 7048 - Life Baker said:

[...] Windows 7 (7048) build is actually built by editing the 7041 or 7046 according to the W7info, a windows 7 dedicated blog. And its mighty true that a RC1 release can’t come out until is [...]

- 13 March 2009 at 10:24 am

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