Windows 8 leaked

[zeromac]

You had to know it was a matter of time before Windows 8 showed up on these great internets for all to download -- illegitimately. An early version (6.1.7850) has been making the rounds at manufacturers and it's finally escaped the confines of beta labs. We haven't braved the torrent sites ourselves to download this, and we certainly wouldn't recommend that you do, but the screenshots we've seen definitely peg this particular revision as a slight evolution of Windows 7, seemingly not including all the revolutionary tweaks to come. That is, of course, assuming there are revolutionary tweaks to come.

Source: Engadget

 

[Livin in a box]

Remember that this build is from September so there won't be many fun things in it. It's pretty pointless right now.

 

[zeromac]

Remember that this build is from September so there won't be many fun things in it. It's pretty pointless right now.

I actually hadn't heard anything about a new OS until now lol

EDIT: Also how can you tell if this is build is from January?

 

[Sir-Fritz]

First images of windows 7 was literally like vista with the taskbar notification arrow thing facing upwards.

 

[Bladexdsl]

don't need it anyway quite happy with windows 7 64x

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

Why release a new OS already? What's wrong with Windows 7?

 

[DKAngel]

the release cycle is usually every 3 years so of course its coming =] osx does it too =]

 

[prowler]

Why release a new OS already? What's wrong with Windows 7?

They aren't releasing it right now.

 

[Quanno]

Meh, not gonna download. only thing i noticed in screenshots so far is the avatar in the corner with a few options.

Not interesting at all.

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

Why release a new OS already? What's wrong with Windows 7?

They aren't releasing it right now.

There's a leaked release of it. Mean it works. Give it a year, maybe two. That's still too fast. OSs are NOT game systems...

 

[Infinite Zero]

Before that happens, I need to upgrade the laptop to 7 now!

 

[zeromac]

Before that happens, I need to upgrade the laptop to 7 now!

My crappy 1.8GHZ laptop from 2006 can run Windows 7

abeit without aero but i have to admit that 7 was hell of alot faster than Windows XP

I might snatch this up this week, see if there are any developments first

Seeing as my copy of Windows 7 has been found to be fake i need to upgrade anyways

 

[shakirmoledina]

i thought they would change the name from windows 7 to something different cuz i always thought like XP, 7 was a nice revolution to the windows OSs. Maybe they should continue with the numbering.

 

[Bladexdsl]

i thought they would change the name from windows 7 to something different cuz i always thought like XP, 7 was a nice revolution to the windows OSs. Maybe they should continue with the numbering.

it's Microsoft they only know how to add or double numbers

 

[DryYoshi]

Won't get this. Looks like Windows 7 and I FREAKING HATE Windows 7! (with the taskbar and stuff, tried it at my grandma's)
I'll just stick to my broken Vista laptop

 

[shadowmanwkp]

Yup saw this all over a torrent site while searching for a win7 iso. I'm not going to try it now, but I am going to try and see if this will run in virtual pc or vmware just for the sake of not ruining my entire pc.

 

[HaniKazmi]

There aint enough differences yet to risk installing a copy.

I'm hoping there is a public beta again, like for windows 7.

 

[tj_cool]

Won't get this. Looks like Windows 7 and I FREAKING HATE Windows 7! (with the taskbar and stuff, tried it at my grandma's)
I'll just stick to my broken Vista laptop

You can fairly easily tweak the taskbar.

 

[Deleted member 473940]

Why dont they improve on windows 7 instead of working on 8 :/.
People still use XP, now we are gonna have a even bigger gap.

More driver issues, etc etc. People complaining about "this" not working with XP, "that" not working with Vista etc etc

 

[GeekyGuy]

Too hard to keep up with Microsoft. I'm still happily using XP.