Windows 8 build 7915 (ARM) in QEMU - let's take a tour
The 8th month of 2024 has been an awesome month for those whose favorite Windows development cycle to explore is Windows 8: we got yet another build leak, this time a Milestone 2 build.
7915 is a Milestone 2 build from late January 2011, and was a partner drop for Texas Instruments. Compared to build 7899, there is a new version of the "let's not leak our hard work" wallpaper which features a wordoku puzzle - this puzzle would remain in the wallpapers of development builds for the rest of Milestone 2 and well into Milestone 3.
This build includes early versions of several Windows 8 features, including new lock and login screens, pattern logon a new OOBE, new apps and more. Most of these showed up in earlier builds, but by this point there was some progress made.
Build string: 6.2.7915.0 (fbl_core1_kernel_npc_ext.110131-1820)
More information: https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_8_b...
BetaWiki installation guide (includes download link to a WIM with this build): https://betawiki.net/wiki/Document:In...
Timestamps:
0:00 Logging in
0:14 Desktop with new wallpaper
0:53 NT version 6.2
1:02 The ability to hide the Start button on the taskbar
1:19 History Vault (became File History)
1:41 Black Screen of Death
1:54 Lock screen
2:01 Updated login screen
2:35 Pattern logon (setup + demo)
3:37 Updated Ctrl-Alt-Delete options screen
3:46 New apps (SystemSettings, MS Help aka the Windows Store, Webcam)
5:29 Revamped OOBE
6:50 Ribbon UI in Explorer
7:24 Modern Windows Task Manager
9:08 Outro
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