Critical Bug in Windows 7 RTM
As most of you know, Windows 7 is expected to hit technet and MSDN by August 6th to a much anticipated welcome. However, this
particlar issue looks strangely out of place and makes you wonder how exactly this passed through validation:
To Reproduce this issue:
- Run an elevated CMD prompt
- Run CHKDSK <drive letter:> /r
- With task manager open, you should see your memory quickly gobbled away in the chkdsk.exe process until it either stops at or around 90% or it maxes completely out and crashes the computer.
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it is looking into reports of a potential bug in the final version of Windows 7. However, Microsoft’s top Windows executive said in a blog posting that the issue appears to be neither widespread, nor the “showstopper” that some are claiming it to be.
However, in the discussion on one of the blogs, top Windows executive Steven Sinofsky said that the company is looking into the issue. But, he said that the company hasn’t reproduced the crashing issue, nor has it gotten widespread reports of crashes.
“While we appreciate the drama of ‘critical bug’ and then the pickup of ‘showstopper’ that I’ve seen, we might take a step back and realize that this might not have that defcon level,” Sinofsky wrote on the site. “Bugs that are so severe as to require immediate patches and attention would have to have no workarounds and would generally be such that a large set of people would run across them in the normal course of using their PC…So far this is not one of those issues.”
Heres the Screenshot for this issue:
