Windows 8 goes to manufacturers in August, will ship in October

#1 Macworld

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Posted 10 July 2012 - 04:31 AM

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#2 TxTom

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Posted 10 July 2012 - 06:06 AM

Zune. 'Nuff said.

#3 zarmanto

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Posted 10 July 2012 - 08:46 AM

Macworld, on 10 July 2012 - 04:31 AM, said:

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that ... Windows 8 [is] "the biggest deal for our company in at least 17 years."

Dude. Bold statement. He just basically said that Microsoft's corporate climax was way back when it introduced the world to the "Start" button, in '95... everything else since has been one big long boring denouement.

Come to think of it, who could possibly argue with that? :lol:

This post has been edited by zarmanto: 10 July 2012 - 09:05 AM

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#4 jfletch

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Posted 10 July 2012 - 12:31 PM

Wow. Another bowl of future claim chowder. Yummy. John Gruber is licking his lips in anticipation!

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:13 AM

It will be successful only because it will be shoved down the throat of unsuspecting customers. I played with the touch interface a bit. It's a mess. It's just like learning a gesture language. If you do it fast, it does something different than if you do it slow. It missis the mark much of the time leading you in to believing you are not doing the gesture correctly. It's confusing when you can have a browser in Metro and a browser in Windows totally dislodged from each other. The person that was demonstrating it, had to go in to YouTube to see how the thing worked. If it needs an instruction manual, they did something very wrong.

This was beta software, but if they did not fix the issues that I experienced, it's going to blow up in Microsoft's face big time.

This post has been edited by Grapho: 11 July 2012 - 04:15 AM