Windows 8 leak

[Chippiewill]

I loled at the image...

You had to know it was a matter of time before Windows 8 showed up on these great internets for all to download -- illegitimately. An early version (6.1.7850) has been making the rounds at manufacturers and it's finally escaped the confines of beta labs. We haven't braved the torrent sites ourselves to download this, and we certainly wouldn't recommend that you do, but the screenshots we've seen definitely peg this particular revision as a slight evolution of Windows 7, seemingly not including all the revolutionary tweaks to come. It's still early days, remember. Plenty of time left for the magic to happen.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/13/w...ike-windows-7/

[paddy140]

I think there rushing with windows 8 so Microsoft calm down!

[matt$]

Don't like it.

[Triz]

I'd have thought that was Win7

[Chippiewill]

Microsoft won't do graphical changes (If any) for a long while, probably shortly before the public beta. So it probably would look similar. However at this point I suspect it's under the hood performance and feature changes that they'll have done.

[AgnesIO]

I think there rushing with windows 8 so Microsoft calm down!

what do you mean 'rushing it so Microsoft calm down'?

[HotelUser]

I wonder what will be new

[AgnesIO]

I wonder what will be new

The big thing with W8 is the whole use of ARM or whatever - i think/

[Chippiewill]

I wonder what will be new

No doubt 90% business oriented features.

The big thing with W8 is the whole use of ARM or whatever - i think/

I'd expect that to come at a later date.

[AgnesIO]

No doubt 90% business oriented features.


I'd expect that to come at a later date.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/m...s-will-play-n/

Looks like the rumors were true: Microsoft has just confirmed that the next major revision of Windows, what we'll call Windows 8 for now, will include ARM support. The company also is throwing a little love to all the system on a chip (SoC) makers out there, indicating they'll be getting support out of the box as well. This is the sort of thing we've come to expect from Windows Embedded, but it's something new for the company's flagship product, and is something of a continued sign that the concept of a "personal computer" is only going to keep changing. Full details are in the release after the break, but be warned those details don't include anything even resembling a date. There are, however, about a zillion quotes from companies like ARM, which says...