Microsoft is incandescent with rage over the recent leak of the Windows 7 Beta.

Redmond planned to release this build to a select number of beta testers, as well as to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. However someone leaked the build and stuck it on several bit-torrent sites where everyone plus dog can have a look at it.

Microsoft has responded by pulling the release off of MSDN and TechNet, and also removed the "Windows 7 Beta" entry from the next quarterly update kit for those parts of the Microsoft Action Pack Subscription (MAPS), which is slated to be sent out to subscribers on January 5, 2009.

It has also started calling it build 7000 instead of Beta One and written in some nasty terms in the license for those who will get a look a it to prevent this sort of leak again. We are not sure that it will work.