Windows 8 Preview Available Today, Blog Leak Reveals

Published on May 31, 2012 By DrJBHL In WinCustomize News

What used to be called “RC” (Release Candidate) has been spun to “Preview”, but the meaning remains the same.

Apparently, the W8 RC is planned to be released today. This was “accidentally” revealed in an MS hardware and driver blog post (Chuck Chan, Corporate V.P. Windows Development team), yesterday. The blog post has since been taken down.

Owen Williams nailed the screen shot on Neowin though and here it is:

According to Owen Williams, the W8 Driver Kit will also be made available today.

Check out his article for links which aren’t active yet.

Source:

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-release-preview-to-land-may-31

Comments (Page 2)

ZenZenPup

on Jun 02, 2012

In my opinion, I wish Microsoft didn't release early previews. People make too many assumptions based on what they initially see and fail to realize changes will most likely be made. With that being said, I'm excited to try the next release.

That statement is close to being as "???" as when Bill Gates told the Macworld crowd how the best platform for developing was on the Macintosh...

Jafo

on Jun 02, 2012

moshi

reply 14

the thought of using explorer.exe as an alternative shell is a little ironic

Is a bit, isn't it?.....

Maybe we can grab progman.exe from Win3...... anything's better than Metro....

Calmira.......

DrJBHL

on Jun 02, 2012

Tim Shiesser posted at Neowin.net that Start 8, ViStart and Classic Shell were not affected by this action as Neil and Jafo confirmed, yesterday in Forums.

Mr. Shiesser went on to write however,

“They probably won't work come the RTM version of Windows 8, but for now you can still enjoy the combination of new and legacy Windows features.”

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