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the windows 8 consumer preview is scheduled for the 29th yeh
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the windows 8 consumer preview is scheduled for the 29th yeh
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i would allow atleast 20GB so you can install some programs, but it really depends on what you intent to use it for.
Just for playing around with, not as a replacement for Win 7
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I thought it was today also?
EDIT: My bad Wikipedia says the 29th!
EDIT: My bad Wikipedia says the 29th!
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Soldato
it has always been labelled as 29th feb so unsure where you read different.
Soldato
from what i have read its being release between 3pm and 5pm CET on the 29th, do you think the servers will handle the amount of people that will be hitting it in the first 24hours?
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oooo interesting! I will be downloading this to bang it on my mba! I hope the drivers have been sorted.
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Would I be right in thinking the developer preview was the equivalent to an alpha, and the consumer preview is going to be the equivalent to either a beta ....or release candidate?
Dislike this new way of naming things
Dislike this new way of naming things
I think I saw it somewhere in this thread.
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As far as I know, instead of the Beta name Microsoft said they will be using the Consumer Preview name.
Soldato
i think 'BETA' was reguarded as something that was close to the finished product only a select group used to find faults. whereas this is not claiming to be a finished product that needs testing, just another milestone in their developement.
Soldato
So this is closer to what would previously have been called a release candidate then?
Soldato
yeh i believe so, i dont think it is being release for 'testing' purposes, more of a marketing hype thing. with 'BETA' it would put a lot of people off trying it, with 'consumer preview' it gives the impression its a trial version, so more people will get it, and the hype will snowball.
but nowhere have microsoft claimed this is by anymeans a true representation of the retail version, so its kind of like a demo to get people talking.
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... and talking it does create. Theres a lot of people going on about it now and once this edition comes out I think it will stir up quicker.
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exactly, its good publicity for it, be it a good or bad thing time will tell.
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If it works out of the box like Windows 7 then there shouldn't be a problem. It may depend what tablets it supports too and if you require a specific type of tablet to have it installed.
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i just have visions of this being marketed as a pre-retail release and the masses of people not understanding it is not a finished product and whacking it on their everyday machine and then endless amounts of people complaining their system is not acting as they expect, or something does work quite right.
i think its good people get a chance to preview what companies are doing, but marketing it as heavily as this seems to of been (whether that is microsoft or the media pushing it im not sure, or whether its just more people are members of place like ocuk and hear about it than there were in previous version of windows) i think might lead to problems, and people slating windows 8 before its even finished because of their poor understanding of what the consumer preview really is.
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This is the biggest problem with releasing the pre design. Time will tell.
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