Posts tagged Windows 7 News
Windows 7 latest build reported to have a new boot screen
Nov 25th
There has been no significant change in boot screens of Microsoft’s operating systems for the last few years. Same goes for Windows 7. The boot screen of Windows 7 builds that have been showed by Microsoft are pretty much same as Windows Vista and others but Winfuture.de has reported that a newer internal build 6954 has got a new boot screen which is significantly different from the previous boot screens.
It is also being speculated that the newer boot screen might be present in the earlier builds of Windows 7 but kept hidden. As per information Win Future has received, the new boot screen shows animated items/balls that come together to/to form Windows logo. It is not clear yet if the new boot screen will be present in the final version.
Microsoft is also thinking about giving the OEMs a choice of changing the boot screen to their requirement. It can of course be done through 3rd party softwares but I don’t think OEMs have been allowed to do it in the past.
A new Windows 7 Build?
Nov 25th
A German website Winfuture has got hands on the latest Windows 7 build we know about yet. It’s build number is 6936. It has been distributed to small circle of pre-beta testers.
Taskbar is fully funtional in this build. Some changes in this Windows 7 Beta Build 6936 are;
- Jumplists can be accessed by right-clicking on a symbol in the taskbar
- A more colorful start button when mouse hovering over it
- Icons next to most used applications displayed leading to jump lists
- Zoom function available now. It works on desktop as well as multimedia files.
- Better hardware detection