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Leaked Build of Windows 9 Shows Start Menu Return

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-soon dept.

Billly Gates writes A leaked alpha of Windows 9 has been brewing on the internet. Today a screenshot shows what MS showed us at BUILD which includes a start menu with additional tiny tiles for things like people, calendar, pc settings, and news etc. "The new hybridized Start menu appears to be part of build 9788, which was compiled on July 4. While no one seems to have leaked the ISOs for build 9788 yet, the general consensus seems to be that the build does indeed exist somewhere at Microsoft — and that it might also feature Windows NT kernel version 6.4 (i.e. the complete version number is 6.4.9788). The screenshots show a Windows 8.1 Pro watermark, but this isn’t unusual for a very early alpha of a new build of Windows. If this really is the next version of the Windows NT kernel, then we’re most likely looking at an early build of Windows 9 (Threshold) rather than Windows 8.2."

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  1. Microsoft is wasting people's time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    2015 will be year of the Linux Desktop!

    1. Re:Microsoft is wasting people's time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Among dinosaurs who still use desktop computers, instead of laptops or tablets, I guess.

      You're either retarded, or you don't do anything useful with your computer.

      Anyone who wants to do anything graphics-intensive would laugh at someone trying to push a laptop on them.

      I hate idiots who think laptops are for gaming. They go buy the crappy $200 Walmart bargain, then wonder why it won't play BF4.

  2. Start menu driver by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, the start menu is part of the "kernel" now. Such design, much engineer, wow very built.

  3. Fuck Tiles! by organgtool · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And yet this menu ends up being a hermaphrodite of the useful menu from Windows 7 and the tiles of the Windows 8 home screen. Seriously, these tiles are about the worst interface I have ever used. The entire interface is inconsistent: tiles are different sizes, different background colors, some have text while others don't, some tile icons are silhouettes while others are full-color, some tiles contain pictures instead of icons, and some tiles are animated. The whole thing reminds me a more professional version of some random schmuck's GeoCities page circa 1998. Microsoft: just stop it with the tiles and provide something consistent and usable!

    1. Re:Fuck Tiles! by dissy · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's probably worth noting that in the Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 "leaks", technical previews, and consumer previews - ALL had the ability to enable a start menu by changing a registry key from 0 to 1, and ALL had that option removed in the final builds.

      I have no reason to believe 9 will be different until after the grand master image is released to OEMs.

  4. Forget the fugly tiles for a second... by norite · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I still want to know why a clean install of winders 8 eats 17Gb of hard drive space...

    I mean, what the hell is in it that takes up that amount of space? It's obscene. And yet I can fit a fully working linux distro on a CD.

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    -- Fuck Beta