Vista was 6000 Win7 was 7600 (6000 + 1600) Win8 was 9200 (7200 + 1600) Win8.1 was 9600 (9200 + 400 or like quarter... Win8.25 ) Win9 should be 10800 (or 11200) judging by NT 6.0 build naming... Therefore, IIRC, Windows 8 Milestone 1 (build 7850) was very early in development and didn't bring almost anything new (except those good looking "shhh, let's not leak our hard work" wallpapers and user account picture beside clock in taskbar) Build 6.2.8102.101 is the firs known build that had those new features that are present in Win8 (hybrid shutdown, Metro screen, File History etc.) so my expectation would be that Technical Preview will be build 101xx. Of course, this is just my speculation.
RTM build nos. has to be a multiple of 16 and 100, and therefore there's a jump of 400(LCM of 16 and 100). win8 should have been RTM'ed on 8800, but MS people made a stupid mistake of trying to use 8888, it caused a QFE f**k-up and was forced to jump the next no. 9200. 7850 had (primitive)metro, but it was a leaked build and didn't have the required "red-pill", shsxs.dll.
I don't think people are still using XP because they don't know how to upgrade, I suspect it is because they don't want/can't afford to.
While they might have started compiling ARM builds, but an ARM preview will only be released somewhere next year according to MJF. And for the last time, Alex Kibkalo wasn't WZOR's source!! He has dropped the ball on several occasions lately, but it has nothing to do with Kibkalo. (also, Kibkalo is out of jail already)
What exactly is cases free ? I'm interessed by offer because i have Windows 8.1 Pro with latest update (retail version buy).
Sorry that I have to quote you. I am interested in knowing much about this information regarding the WZor's leak source. However, Alex Kibkalo leak was given to the French leak not a Russian(WZor). Can you tell me a little about your understanding of how this Alex's case is related to WZor's leak source?
It was in reply to this: That rumor was about Kibkalo and WZOR, but they really have no connection at all, so the quote above is wrong.
I'm not positive about Surface 3 machines but don't they have ARM and i5/i7 processors like they made in model 2 versions?
The Surface Pro 3 is not an ARM device and they haven't yet released a Surface 3, which would be an ARM device...