Windows 7 beta 1 which is speculated to have build 6.1.7000.0 or 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 which might come out in the month of January 2009 the date of release is revolving around first and second week of January (5th january, 7th january 13th, january ). The world is keeping close eye on release of Windows 7 beta 1 but controversy over windows 7 beta 1 build got more dense today.

You might be surprised to know that Microsoft is ready with Windows 7 beta build 7004 (7004.0.081203-1830) which is known to be compiled on December 3, 2008, well the date is pretty contradictory with Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 said to be compilled on December 12, 2008.

The news of Windows 7 Beta Build 7004 got surfaced on internet when Scott Wylie, Director of Development and Platform Strategy for Microsoft New Zealand Director has published a screenshot of Windows 7 Beta Build 7004 on his blog.

Most Interesting part of that blog post is Scott used “the pre-beta build of W7” to refere Windows 7 Beta Build 7004. Where as Industry is already speculating that the build 7004 is in fact the possible Release Candidate (RC) or even RTM (Release to Manufacturing) code bits.

Screenshot of Windows 7 beta Build 7004 (7004.0.081203-1830)

Unfortunately that page has been taken down now like Windows 7 beta 1 download link, But here is quoted text from Scott Wylie blog post,

Okay, I’ve just installed a pre-beta build of W7 on my old home laptop (a Tosh M5 with 2GB memory). The upgrade went very smoothly though it did take a little while.

This feels like a completed OS, it doesn’t say beta to me it says almost done.

Well we are little lucky thanks to Google, the cahche page is still available and you may check out Google Cached Scott Wylie blog post.

We may see big discussion/controversy on Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 (Claimed beta release) with Windows 7 Pre beta build 7004.