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Windows 8... info i found

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I just got a PCWorld magazine and it had Windows 8 information in it. Here are links (to the pcworld site) with some information.

http://find.pcworld.com/71490
http://find.pcworld.com/71491

for once, i really dont know what to say about it. Im not sure if Microsoft is doing something good, or going to far..
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They JUST announced Win7 SP1 (Clicky), and they're already talking about 8?
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They were thinking about Battlefront 4 before 3 was released (or finished, or made). I hope Win8 is good. :yes:
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Yeah, Win8 sounds good, I didn't like Vista or Win7, but Win8 sounds good. :)
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Sounds awesome. I have Windows 7 myself. :cpu:
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Nice demonstration :thumbs:
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Twilight_Warrior wrote:They JUST announced Win7 SP1 (Clicky), and they're already talking about 8?
They have been talking about it since 7 came out. This is just the first information Microsoft confermed.


I just kinda wonder what new features it will have. I did hear a rumor that it will have 8 second startups, and a bran new BiOS to control it.
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I hope they make things easy for us tech people.
(but they probably won't) :roll:
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ps2owner wrote:I hope they make things easy for us tech people.
(but they probably won't) :roll:
7 and XP aren't that bad... Though I would like to see a new filesystem that will let us use more than 2 tb per drive
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Found some ne winfo on 8:
http://windows8beta.com/2011/04/windows ... -windows-8

Ribbon UI like Microsoft Office 2007. They seem to be liking that a bt too much now..
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computergeek wrote:
ps2owner wrote:I hope they make things easy for us tech people.
(but they probably won't) :roll:
7 and XP aren't that bad... Though I would like to see a new filesystem that will let us use more than 2 tb per drive
Its called UEFI. Its similar to BIOS, but allows up to 2 Billion terabytes in one partition.
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Microsoft is planning on basing Windows 8's build on a 128-bit infrastructure!
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Marth8880 wrote:Microsoft is planning on basing Windows 8's build on a 128-bit infrastructure!
Uhh what? According to Wikipedia there are no 128-bit processors available yet. Also, there's a bunch of 32-bit computers out there still in use and going to a brand new architecture already seems kind of extreme. :?
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sim-al2 wrote:According to Wikipedia there are no 128-bit processors available yet.
Not at the moment there aren't, but I'm sure they're being worked on. Windows 8 isn't supposed to be released until 2012 or 2013 or something like that.
sim-al2 wrote:Also, there's a bunch of 32-bit computers out there still in use and going to a brand new architecture already seems kind of extreme. :?
I'm sure Microsoft will add support for 64-bit and most likely 32-bit.
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