Newer, more advanced leaked build of Windows 8 now available

Not a very tight security at Microsoft these days.

These builds have been leaking out for like 10 years now. Nothing new under the sun. Personally never seen the point of being a "beta tester" though, but maybe just for curiosity purposes some people like to run and test these. It's easier nowadays too with virtual machines. Maybe they'll finally get that new file system done.

lol i wonder with all these advance releases if daz and orbit will have a blow, surely they can still use slic 2.0 or have they implemented something new ???

What's the friggen' point of Win8 over Win7?

I mean the REAL point?

(And don't just say to make money... I know you jokers!!!)

Is this gonna be another Microsoft F up similar to the F'ed up F up that MS committed with Windows ME?

Microsoft thinks that by pushing out OS after OS that they have their shit together but clearly not the case. Rather than spacing out release like OSX does, they are readying another Windows release just a year after 7.

Yet again........decision makers and the "powers that be" all in the wrong position of authority.

UN-STABLE (WHEN ISN'T SOMETHING MICROSOFT RELEASES UNSTABLE)I MEAN REALLY, WE HAVE PATCHES TO DOWNLOAD, BEFORE THE OS EVEN HITS THE SHELVES OF OUR LOCAL COMPUTER STORES....ok so everyone knows the drill its a snapshot of things to come like longhorn and all the other alpha's and bata's look even if microsoft put out something great why move from 7 its just come out in the last year or so... really 8 why not call it the last and next year relase the last again but with updates....

Wow, these are some reallllly ignorant comments...

@ mystic

This isn't an official MS Beta release. This is a Milestone 2 level software that someone has leaked. It is farrrr from production/beta ready. So OF COURSE it MAY be unstable.

Also, Win7 was released Oct of 2009. By the time Win8 actually is released for retail, it will be right on schedule with MS's normal ~3 year release schedule.

In addition, this version of Windows is pushed for Tablet support and support for many other recent releases in MS's eco-system. Therefore making it a much more different OS than Win7 was compared to Vista. Win7 was more of a "oh shit" patch for Vista.

Originally posted by bob313246:

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Wow, these are some reallllly ignorant comments...

Win7 was more of a "oh shit" patch for Vista.

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Originally posted by Jemborg:

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Originally posted by bob313246:

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Wow, these are some reallllly ignorant comments...

Win7 was more of a "oh shit" patch for Vista.

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What? Win7 is rejigged Server 2008!

LoL

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@Bob

I know what you mean concerning cosmetics etc. But the feel? I believe Win7 comes across to the consumer as more than an '"oh shit" patch for Vista' otherwise it would be treated with more circumspection.

Look, I'm not picking a fight here Bob, I thought what you wrote was sensible. Just that last sentence... something is not right with it. I guess it comes across as a bit dismissive.

I had to work on someone's laptop the other day. I was thinking, "Crikey, there must be a ton of malware on this poot!". My efforts did not not improve it much. "What's wrong", I thought, "it's not a bad lappy". Then, "doh!". I realised it was running Vista. Heh, egg-faced.

I can't see Win8 being taken on except on new machines. It might have DX12 which might be radical except it seems hard enough to get game developers to write for DX10 let alone DX11 (hopefully that will change now). As tablets go Android seems to be winning that market with the manufacturers.

Perhaps Win8 will be truly revolutionary... I'm typing this on a old Atom CPU 1000H EeePC with 2gb RAM and an SSD. Its OS is Win7 x32 ultimate~ 99.9% bells and whistles turned on. It runs mostly like cream. Big deal that it takes up 11gb. So what could we expect from Win8?

When is any of M$ releases stable anyway.

Originally posted by ROMaster2:

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Not a very tight security at Microsoft these days.

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Nooooooooooo, not the dreaded Ribbon UI (like the one in Office 2007???). Virtually guarantees i will not move to Win8

Originally posted by seegee:

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Nooooooooooo, not the dreaded Ribbon UI (like the one in Office 2007???). Virtually guarantees i will not move to Win8

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