Windows 7 M1 Lost the Leaks Race to XP SP3 Refresh 2 and Vista SP1 RTM

 The first signs of Windows 7 M1 were delivered in mid-January 2008. With the Redmond company not breathing a single word on any specific details related to the next version of Windows, speculations at that point in time were distributed between either dismissing or confirming Windows 7 Milestone 1. Microsoft has
yet to come out and officially talk Windows 7, but bits and pieces, details, screenshots and video
demonstrations are indeed available to put together the bigger picture of the next iteration of Windows.

A single thing is missing, although it appeared at a certain point that Windows 7 M1 had been completely leaked. But the fact of the matter is that from torrent trackers to peer-to-peer file sharing networks, to warez sites, there is absolutely no trace of Windows 7 bits. Sure there are the leaked details, delivering a taste of Windows 7 Milestone 1. But nothing palpable at this point in time. Despite the fact that Microsoft's key partners have been rather generous in letting information slip through their fingers, the same was not valid for the Windows 7 M1 bits.

In this context, the first development milestone of Windows 7, the one that is still designed to be implemented on top of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, has lost the leaks race to all the other Windows platforms under development at Microsoft, client and server.

Torrent websites are serving Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate Refresh 2 from January, and even Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM and Windows Server 2008 RTM. But no Windows 7 M1.And it's not that Microsoft has been trying to put the Windows 7 genie back in the bottle, going instead for a different strategy, one in which it all but ignores M1 of the operating system. It's simply that, for once, Microsoft's select pool of testers have managed not to produce a leak...