Windows 7 Build 7068 Screens: Interactive Setup

Just when I thought the flood of interim Windows 7 builds had come to a close, Microsoft contacted its TAP partners this week and alerted them that a new build, build 7068, was being made avail...

Paul Thurrott

October 6, 2010

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Just when I thought the flood of interim Windows 7 builds had come to a close, Microsoft contacted its TAP partners this week and alerted them that a new build, build 7068, was being made available for testing. This build gives us the best look yet at what's coming in the Windows 7 release candidate (RC), and it's the first to include the option to install any of the final SKUs (product editions), as shown in the shots below.

From a functional standpoint, not much has changed since build 7057. We see a handful of new icons (Games explorer, for example) and some new wallpaper. I will document that stuff later today in a second set of screenshots. For now, here's the build 7068 interactive Setup experience, which has been streamlined dramatically over the course of the Windows 7 beta.


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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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