RTM in August, according to what "Windows Weekly" co-host Mary Jo Foley was saying today (episode #301):
http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly
A "public preview" could possibly be released in June.
to hit RTM in june
Well since they killed Aero maybe they can kill metro too ()
Many have called Windows Blue “the first service pack” for Windows 8, even though Microsoft insiders had previously hinted that the company was looking to completely abandon the service pack cycle and focus on a yearly update schedule, just like rivals Apple.
Why are people not seeing that this is essentially just a service pack with a different name?
Metro is being improved in Windows Blue,I wish they would kill the moaners .
Can it take out those who thought this whole thing was a good idea too? :biggrin:
Why are people not seeing that this is essentially just a service pack with a different name?
Service packs have almost never added features or changed the UI.
End of the day you can't please everybody.
Microsoft moving to shorter cycles is a good thing.
Windows Blue is suppose to be a new kernal and IE11 is being developed at the same time. I wonder if this will break all the drivers like what happened with Vista?
How about including an option for the Win7 start menu? Nope? Too difficult?
WinXP and Vista must have been designed by some AMAZING developers to have included two Start menu layout options.
Nope, I think it simply means that they'll move to a less-customer-friendly schedule for dropping support for older operating systems.
There seems to be a suspicious amount of compatibility issues that have cropped up in Win8 and I haven't heard a good reason why yet. Why doesn't Office 2003 work on it? I know why Office 2000 and 2002/XP didn't work on =>Vista perfectly, not so sure about Office 2k3 and Win8.
Actually Apple did something much worse - they introduced a new line of CPU (from PPC to Intel) that made ALL your legacy software obsolete. At first they added some sort of emulation to make them compatible but after I believe MAC OS 10.4 they dropped it.
Why should they include the old style Start button especially if they want to get away for a Start button that goes back to Win95 days(thats almost 20 years of no change), Win+X covers all the basic stuff ,don't forget charm bar as well and you also have a third party mod options if you must use the old style Start button,some people can't move away from very old designs.
Yes, because Win7 suffered so very badly from bloat, and as far as I'm aware, Win8's system requirements are no different from Windows 7's.As to options?... why include everything for the user and make it even more bloated,then you get the others moaning about why is this OS bloated etc...you can't expect them to keep stuff they want to drop or move away from.
Forgive me for stating what ought to be obvious, but giving customers a choice is a good thing. Especially considering the 'new and improved' version offers no improvement whatsoever over the Win7 start menu.
Yes, because Win7 suffered so very badly from bloat, and as far as I'm aware, Win8's system requirements are no different from Windows 7's.
Win8 also breaks the user interface standards used by MS by having one set of standards for Metro apps and another for the rest. Also, the DPI setting no longer affects the whole of the user interface, for example I've seen the DPI setting not affect Explorer's ribbon interface or the Metro interface.
Choice is one thing and you do have a choice ie stay on old Win95 design and get left behind or try and except some things will not come back like I did long time ago...
Please specify how Win8's new UI increases productivity on a laptop or desktop.at least Win8 is going in a new direction with new UI etc,sure its not perfect but improvements will come in Windows Blue.
Yawn. That's a pretty juvenile tactic. Please argue based on what you've got to argue about rather than trying to imagine new positions that I might have on other things.Btw if I was like you I would still be moaning about DOS being removed from Windows,but I have excepted that things change with regards to Windows(at least I've DOSBox oh thats right you have third party options for Start button etc so we are even ).
So, if choice is over-rated, why allow users to customise how Windows looks and works at all? By your rationale, the 'ease of access' options should be there and that's it.
Please specify how Win8's new UI increases productivity on a laptop or desktop.
Yawn. That's a pretty juvenile tactic. Please argue based on what you've got to argue about rather than trying to imagine new positions that I might have on other things.
Choice and customization are two different things,end of the day Win8 is good with regards to customization.
That's not what I asked. I asked how Win8's "UI improvements" increase user productivity.As to your second second productivity on Win8 is good as Win7 ie you can still customize desktop and pin all your important stuff etc.. even takes less then a second to switch between Metro and old style Desktop via mouse,I pin all the desktop stuff I need on old style desktop so can avoid Metro for non Metro stuff and my old desktop still looks neat.
Win9x wasn't very stable. Microsoft paid a group of developers to come up with an alternative. They did, it was labelled Windows NT. That's change for the better (rather than the game called "let's try to hide MS-DOS" that MS played with WinME). There have been more since then, but not that many.Last question was not juvenile since I was trying to make you see Microsoft always remove and change things with different operating systems (they have been doing this for decades etc..)but you still want to live in the past and not even try to except things change,even if you think they are for the worst.
Well since they killed Aero maybe they can kill metro too ()
So allowing users to customise the UI isn't giving them a choice?
That's not what I asked. I asked how Win8's "UI improvements" increase user productivity.
Win9x wasn't very stable. Microsoft paid a group of developers to come up with an alternative. They did, it was labelled Windows NT. That's change for the better (rather than the game called "let's try to hide MS-DOS" that MS played with WinME). There have been more since then, but not that many.
As far as I can see, Windows 8's UI is there for the sole purpose of pushing touch-screen devices.
One thing I haven't yet figured out with Win8 is an easy method of accessing recent documents. Win7's jump lists and Win95's "recent documents" lists were pretty useful.
http://superuser.com/questions/4922...quivalent-of-recent-items-my-recent-documentsYes, there is a way to do this: Just open the run dialog box by pressing Win + R and type in "recent". There you can see your recent activities.
Note: "Recent places" can be access under Windows Explorer's under "Favorite".
Also you can create a shortcut of the "recent" at your desktop and then pin it to start menu. For this just right click on desktop and seclect New>Shortcut. In file location type the pathC:/users/username/recentand click the Next button, it will prompt the name and now click Finish. You will see the shortcut on desktop now and you can pin it to start menu. Also you can define Hotkey for this from properties now.
One can only hope lol.