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Microsoft: Windows 8 To RTM In August
nk497 writes "Microsoft has confirmed Windows 8 will RTM the first week of August, with general availability in late October. Steve Ballmer suggested Microsoft expected Surface to sell "millions" of the 375m Windows 8 PCs expected to sell in the next year — spending much of the keynote talking about partners' devices. From the article: 'Tami Reller, chief financial officer and chief marketing officer of the Windows and Windows Live division, confirmed the release date at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto today, as she showed off a host of Windows 8 devices created by the software giant's manufacturing partners.'"
Microsoft has announced that the release date will be pushed out to Friday, December 21, 2012
I hear one of them was given a Surface tablet to use in place of his newspaper. The fly never saw it coming.
Released to WTF sounds more appropriate.
... of the discussion. You're as predictable as everyone else.
I mean who uses the GUI to do much work in Windows anyway? Pfffft , cmd.exe is all I need!
Having dropped the Start Menu in the initial release, and cluttered the desktop with boring tiles, the first Windows 8 maintenance service pack will replace those tiles with a host of animated sprites. Click on the Pearly "Gates" to access the Cloud. Click on the lie detector sprite to verify your CD has been paid for using the Microsoft Trusted Customer Media Player. Click on the flying chair to register a bug report.
It's Microsoft's attempt to build a new desktop OS that works well and that people like, but to improve usability in the face of their massive market losses to Apple which are mostly predicated on usability.
It's also an attempt to shortcut their way into the mobile space by adding a mobile UI to their existing product. Their mobile OS is failed on phones, but there's no big competitor to Apple in the tablet space right now, and MSFT hopes they can be that.
Basically, MSFT is years behind in just about every product line they have, but are still following their tried-and-true, packaging up other peoples' ideas with Windows logos, and selling them as innovation.
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This space for rent.
Anyone else reading that as "Windows Millstones"? Just you, me, and all their "partners", I suspect.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Eh hem... It's "Vista and I." Perhaps you weren't paying attention to the article on whether grammar matters anymore.
Should have gone for a traditional sandwich.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."