Day: 24 July 2009

Political Posters

Today, I came across an interesting picture of Bill Gates. As mentioned previously, I obtained a copy of the Windows 7 RTM build. With it came an interesting picture:

w7_signoff

Naturally, I was curious about this Bill Gates-Mao photo, so I headed over to trusty old Google and looked it up; turns out it’s from a Newsweek cover. That Google search brought me to Rick Jacobi’s blog, where there is a nice collection of new Obama political posters, and the old ones that inspired them.

BARACK-hope-POSTERChe_Guevara

Windows 7 RTM

Rumours circulating around the Internet seem to indicate that build 7600.16385 of Windows 7 is the RTM release. Naturally I was curious and went to fetch said build (7600.16385.090713-1255_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULFRER_EN_DVD.iso) from one of the usual spots. I installed the RTM from a USB drive onto a spare laptop to test it out. There weren’t too many changes, the most noticeable ones being the removal of the Evaluation watermark from the bottom right corner of the screen and a “new” wallpaper.

Windows 7 RTM "Harmony" wallpaper

Windows 7 RTM "Harmony" wallpaper

Windows 7 RTM