What? November? Seriously it lol OMG EDIT: Predict suicides ^_~ @bchat I never!, for the love of god do not get the real sense of the word, sarcastic humor nothing else.
I sincerely think Cortana will not be active in the Windows 9 Technical Preview come 30th September as well. There are indications in the prior leaks Cortana is deactivated, which, by all means show that it is not dead but deactivated due to some reasons best known to Microsoft.
There are a URL about Windows Technical Preview.Someone posted a topic in a Chinese forum "Chiphell" about wtp's download link.It said the link is "prev.windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-download" and several screenshots to this link. but i can't access to this link
The key is (again) from Windows 8.1 RC pkeyconfig. Code: Key Status: Valid Product ID: 00137-10010-52743-AA634 Extended PID: XXXXX-01371-001-052743-00-16393-9200.0000-270201 Activation ID: 507660dd-3fc4-4df2-81f5-b559467ad56b Edition Type: Professional Description: Win 8 RC Professional Retail Edition ID: [Blue]X18-05552 License Type: Retail License Channel: Retail Crypto ID: 1371
I dunno about you, but I'd rather have them take their sweet time and get it right. The faster they rush it, the less testing they do. The less testing they do the more bugs on launch day. The more bugs on launch day, the more bad press they get, and defeats the whole point of making win9 instead of win8.2.
The faster they rush it, the less testing they do. The less testing they do the more bugs on launch day. The more bugs on launch day, the more bad press they get. The more bad press they get, the worse the OS will do. The worse the OS Does, the less people will move from XP. If less people move from XP, Microsoft wont make new OS's. If MS Doesn't make new OS's they won't test as much. Don't let MS test their OS less, or they will test less.
If Windows 8 would have been a success, Threshold would have been released in October RTM like Win 8.1 so the fact that they're waiting till April 2015 to release should mean they are taking more time that they should be anyways. Releasing a preview build in October, 7 months before release is quite a long time (Windows 8.1 was in preview to RTM for 4 months, Win 8 public previews to RTM 8 months). If anything we can complain they are taking far too long than too fast.
Well.. the difference between 8 and 8.1 is not as huge as 7 to 8, and hopefully not as big as 8 to 9. People focus on just the superficial stuff like start menu and desktop backgrounds, but there was a lot of hardware and file system improvements in 8 as well. I just really want them to take the time to test everything they change on as many different hardware combinations as possible. I also wish they'd give the builds to major hardware manufacturers like graphics chips manufacturers and solid state drive makers. Pretty much any tech that they can't extensively test in-house I'd love for them to send off to these companies. It seems like half of the trash talking we see about a new OS is from a buggy graphics driver or buggy filesystem thing like the asus asmedia usb3 drivers on win8.x By themselves, each complaint is minor, but when you add them all up people think that the OS itself is buggy. That's what we saw when win8 was released, and to be honest, there was nothing wrong with the OS. It was mostly the hardware companies that had problems with their drivers. I kind-of also wish MS would issue some recommended guidelines for the anti-virus and anti-malware crowd, because it seems like every software problem we see these days is because of an a/v program.