The first known build of Windows 7 was identified as a "Milestone 1 (M1) code drop" according to reports sent to TG Daily and has a version number of 6.1.6519.1 according to various reports. It was sent to key Microsoft partners by January 2008 in both x86 and x64 versions.[10][11] Though not yet confirmed by Microsoft, reviews and screenshots have been published by various sources.[12][13] Features described include Gadgets being integrated into Windows Explorer, a Gadget for Windows Media Center, the ability to visually pin and unpin items from the Start Menu and Recycle Bin, improved media features and a new XPS Viewer. Reports also indictate that a feedback tool included in Windows 7 lists some coming features: the ability to store Internet Explorer settings on a Windows Live account, new versions of Calculator, Paint and WordPad that use Windows Presentation Foundation, and a 10 minute install process.[14] UI changes are expected to appear in later builds of Windows 7, though there is already a bright bootscreen present, somewhat resembling pre-XP versions of Windows.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Background of WINDOWS se7en
Circa 2000, Windows XP and its server counterpart Windows Server 2003 (codenamed Whistler) were planned to be followed-up by a major release of Windows that was codenamed Blackcomb (both codenames refer to the Whistler-Blackcomb resort) and scheduled for a 2005 release.[citation needed] Major features were planned for Blackcomb, including an emphasis on searching and querying data and an advanced storage system to enable such scenarios. In this context, a feature mentioned by Bill Gates for Blackcomb was "a pervasive typing line that will recognize the sentence that [the user is] typing in.
Later Blackcomb was delayed and an interim minor release, codenamed "Longhorn", was announced for a 2003 release.[6] Even more delays later, Longhorn became a major release and accumulated many features initially planned for Blackcomb, including the advanced storage system (titled WinFS) as well as the searching system (christened Windows Search). Later Longhorn shed a few features, including WinFS but retaining the searching capabilities, en route to a 2007-launch as Windows Vista.
SOURCE :- WIKIWindows 7
Windows 7 (previously codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is scheduled to be the next major version of Microsoft Windows, expected to be the successor of Windows Vista.[1] Microsoft has announced that it is "scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year timeframe", and that "the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar."[2] The client versions of Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions,[2] even though the server counterpart (which will succeed Windows Server 2008) will be exclusively 64-bit.
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Future models
In early 2009, AMD is expected to launch a series of 45 nm processors [10], as of October 2007, only the codenames are known to the public, they are Deneb FX for Phenom FX, Deneb for quad-core processors, Heka for triple-core Phenom processor and Regor for Athlon X2. These processors are expected to be available in late 2008 to early 2009, with the support of DDR3 memory and are expected to have larger shared L3 cache as well as the implementation of Socket AM3 for single-processor systems and Socket G3MX for dual-processor Quad FX platform
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Issues
Before Phenom's release, it was discovered that a bug in the L3 cache in AMD's quad-core processors could cause a system lockup in rare circumstances. Phenom is affected by this bug up to and including stepping B2. There are BIOS and software workarounds to prevent this problem from occurring, although the workarounds typically employed incur a performance penalty of around 10%. This penalty was not accounted for in early pre-release previews of Phenom, so the performance of early Phenoms delivered to customers is expected to be somewhat below the benchmarks in these previews. Updated CPUs with the bug fixed will be named Phenom 9550 and 9650, and are supposed to arrive "mid to late Q1 2008
SOURCE :- WIKI
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Change of model nomenclatures
The model numbers of the new line of processors was changed from the PR system used in its predecessors, the Athlon 64 X2. The new model numbering scheme, for later released Athlon X2 processors, is a four digit model number with different family indicator as the first number [3], while Sempron remained using the LE prefix, as follows:
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| Processor series | Indicator |
|---|---|
| Phenom quad-core (Agena) | 9 |
| Phenom triple-core (Toliman) | 8 |
| Athlon dual-core (Kuma) | 6 |
| Athlon single-core (Lima) | 1 |
| Sempron single-core (Sparta) | 1 |
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