After reading the new informations on wz0r, It seems that the winmain branch, will be the base of Windows 8.

Now the work is going in two directions, is to develop a code for the first service pack Service Pack 1 and continued development of post-RTM builds of Windows 7 for the work on the new operating system.

So can we call this build...

6.1.7700.0.winmain.100122.1900 - Hashes leaked on January 27th, 2010

STRING: 6.1.7700.0.amd64fre.winmain.100122.1900
FILE: 7700.0.100122-1900_x64fre_client_en-us-GRMCXFRE_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 3,231,166,444 bytes
SHA-1: C0CB719B781D49B39D8CC93A27F990A366B8E4C7

...windows 8 pre-pre-alfa?

Unfortunatelly we haven't seen any of theese builds yet:

6.1.7650.0.winmain.090917-1843
6.1.7651.0.winmain.090924-1802
6.1.7656.0.winmain.091015-0833
6.1.7658.0.winmain.091019-1850
6.1.7659.0.winmain.091020-1830
6.1.7660.0.winmain.091021-1736
6.1.7661.0.winmain.091022-1755
6.1.7662.0.winmain.091023-1645
6.1.7664.0.winmain.091027-1825
6.1.7691.0.winmain.100106-1825
6.1.7692.0.winmain.100107-1735
6.1.7693.0.winmain.100111-1820
6.1.7694.0.winmain.100113-1753
6.1.7695.0.winmain.100114-1855
6.1.7696.0.winmain.100115-1725
6.1.7700.0.winmain.100122.1900

From the last one we only got the hashcodes, and wz0r not going to leak it :S

[IMG]http://dirtywindows.****.ru/_nw/1/38519050.jpg[/IMG]

screenshots from the new builds, and other info

I hope they take the time to strip down to MinWin, and base it off that.

~Lordbob

Originally Posted by arkhi

Every kernel has always been based on the previous since WinXP. I can't imagine MS creating a whole new Kernel anytime soon.

Actually, they are based of the NT kernel. XP was based off this too.

~Lordbob