The Windows 8 Thread

[MR.B]

According to The Verge these are the new names for Zune and Windows Live ID, along with others...

Microsoft Account (Windows Live ID)
Mail (Windows Live Mail)
Calendar (Windows Live Calendar)
People (Windows Live Contacts)
Photos (Windows Live Photo Gallery)
Music (Zune Music Player)
Video (Zune Video Player)

Although according to this, 'Microsoft Acount' might just be called 'Your Account', and will unify all of Microsofts account services (MSN, Xbox, Windows Live, Windows Phone, Zune) in to one.

Edit: looks like it will be 'Microsoft account' ... you can login here with your Windows Live ID: account.microsoft.com

With the fewer Win 8 SKU's as well, things are finally looking a lot less confusing for Microsoft products...

 

[MR.B]

The Consumer Preview is a BETA version. It will apparently be feature complete, everything in the finished Win 8 should be in this, even if it's not working 100% correctly or missing small things. The Dev Preview was equivalent to an Alpha build, and was missing tons of stuff including bundled software. Theres also been changes to Metro in the BETA, and you can now close Metro apps by swiping downwards. I'd expect some kind of mouse gesture equivalent.

As far as i know MS are aiming to have one more release after this, which will be the Release Candidate.

And the Consumer Preview is meant to be up around 2pm GMT.