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Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the 'consumer preview'
Monday, January 23, 2012 11:23 PM
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Re:Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the 'consumer preview'
Monday, January 23, 2012 11:26 PM
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Interesting...
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Re:Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the 'consumer preview'
Monday, January 23, 2012 11:32 PM
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Grrrrr.
I *like* Windows 7. MICROSOFT - Y U NO KEEP THINGS SAME??
(Yes, yes obviously it's the next thing...well, maybe not 'obviously'. I skipped Win Me, and only had Vista on a few HTPC/media PC/mobile/etc devices...never my main box. Still...this just seems *rushed*. What's the 'killer app/feature/casus belli' for it?)
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Bluebrains
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Re:Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the 'consumer preview'
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:46 AM
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Re:Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the 'consumer preview'
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:53 PM
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I'm going to make a partition on my Platter drives just to give it a spin, but I have a feeling I will be with Win7 for years to come.
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Re:Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the 'consumer preview'
Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:32 AM
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i'll probably be sticking to win7 as well.
windows 8 looks like a transition OS, just like windows Vista.
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Re:Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the 'consumer preview'
Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:34 PM
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If it is a full beta I will have it on day one, anything else nope, sorry. Just waiting for it to hit technet so we can see what we got. 
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Re:Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the 'consumer preview'
Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:10 PM
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I can see trying it out, with a backup image of my current Windows 7 setup ready to restore when I see how bad the idea to make a phone OS into a PC OS was implemented.
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Re:Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the 'consumer preview'
Saturday, January 28, 2012 5:02 PM
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I don't care what they call it as long as it's good.  I think Microsoft has an evil plan. 8 is going to have a rough start like Vista and Windows 9 will kickbutt like Windows 7. They like playing with our emotions.
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