Two days ago Winrumors.com reported, that a new Windows 8 build 7989 has been leaked and will be available for download from file hosters and torrents soon.
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[German Edition here] The leaked .iso file is named 6.2.7989.0.amd64fre.winmain.110421-1825.iso and has a size of 3.54 GB. Here are the MD5 and SHA1 values.
MD5: 4480F94C 0E11CE58 DC9B7330 678F07DD
SHA1: C09CDCEC 2540D93E EBE650B5 21B2F7AE 477A300A
A short changelog for 7989 reports the following items:
-New bootscreen (stock)
-New Aero (RP)
-AeroLite Glass (RP)
-Few change in Ribbon (RP, sure)
-New mode in Account User called Touch Logon (RP)
(Show the Ugly guy with the date & hour without CTRL+ALT+DEL)
-Fixed blur bug
Known bug:
-TabletInput
-explorer.exe crash
Solution: Disable the feature from (Turn on/off windows feature)
Locked feature (not hidden with RP):
- New TaskManager TaskUI is now called TM.exe
Know bug in 7989 during OOBE after RP:
Source: forum mydigitallife
Beside these changelog details, there are other news. User MagicAndré1982 from german site WinVistaSide.de reported here, that Build 7989 contains Hyper-V. Hyper-V is known from Windows Server 2008 R2 for virtualization purposes. While Windows Virtual PC, which is available for Windows 7, doesn’t provide 64 bit support, Hyper-V does.
(Source: WinVistaSide.de)
User MagicAndré1982 also recognized, that Microsoft uses a new extended virtual disk format (.vhdx files). Old .vhd files may be used also in Hyper-V. Beside the new .iso mount function, found in earlier builds, these are many new features that comes with Windows 8.
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