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On Thursday, May 31, Microsoft released the final public pre-release build of Windows 8 before the product is released to manufacturing (OEM) - the Windows 8 Release Preview.

Unfortunately, the previously released of the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 cannot be upgrade - a clean install is needed!

Officials at Microsoft have indicated the “Aero” interface will be removed over the next days/weeks including changes to the Windows 8 bits designed to prevent hacks that would allow users to bring back the 'Start' button and/or boot directly to the Desktop instead of the Metro Start Screen.

Officials at Microsoft have also conceded that Flash is not yet obsolete - thus Microsoft has partnered with Adobe to build Flash support into the new version of Internet Explorer 10.

Officials at Microsoft have confirmed that the Windows 8 upgrade promotion should be kicking off on June 2 - consumers buying Windows 7 PCs between June 2 and January of 2013 will be allowed to upgrade to Windows 8 Professional for $14.99 US (the promotion will be available in 131 markets).

I will skip Windows 8 for sure

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Ron



Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

Ron, maybe on a tablet ... if it is already installed.

My partner bought a new computer, this past Monday - wonder if the date on the bill can be easily changed to next Monday date...

For now I'm on an android tablet, I think tablets are not usefull for developing , the metro-interface only can survive on a tablet I think it has no sense for dekstops, are you sure you want to downgrade to win 8 on your desktop

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Ron



Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

I have never said/written that I (or my partner) was going to install Windows 8 on a desktop computer but for $15US dollars, that is not a bad purchase...

Well the same occured with the windows Vista release 15 EURO for Windows 7 most suppliers added 29 Euro shippingcosts

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Ron



Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

Having played with Windoze 8 in a VirtualBox for a few weeks I've come to the conclusion that the one and only aspect I see useful is IE10. It seems to work properly with HTML5 and CSS3 webpages.

Sadly, it seems that IE10 is only available as part of Windoze 8, and Windoze 8 is definitely not a suitable desktop o/s.

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Graeme.
http://weather.gktnet.com/cumulus/index.htm

MS have previously said that IE10 will be available for Windows 7 (and that a beta and RC would be available prior to IE10 general availability) - e.g. see the comment from 'ieblog' half way down this page: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/11/29/html5-for-applications-the-fourth-ie10-platform-preview.aspx. Have they changed their position?

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Steve
Sanday Weather
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I did the same, except it only lasted minutes not weeks. The experience in Virtualbox just wasn't there. I've been meaning to set it up as a dual boot and see if this improved the experience.

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Conder, Canberra Weather

Steve, I suspect Micro$oft's intention is to get Windoze 8 sold to as many customers as possible, and one way to achieve that end might be with IE10.

Every link I've followed that claimed to be an IE10 download ultimately leads back to either here: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Info/Downloads/Default.html or here: http://connect.microsoft.com/ie
...and that includes the msdn blog page from your previous post.

Bob, I don't think there would be any benefit from dual-booting, moreover you'd be wasting more time trying to find something worthwhile about it.
Besides, it's easier to remove a virtual machine than it is to remove a dual-booted o/s....

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Graeme.
http://weather.gktnet.com/cumulus/index.htm