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.
Well that's my point the longer release period usually coincided with a major release I.e. Vista-7, 7-8, yet what we're getting feature wise is closer to 8.1. It's possible this time they really are taking test seriously. And with the preview being public they'll get plenty of hardware testing as if it was a three year major release.
even they have they probably won't give this...everyone has its own code,they won't like to be caught by ms,but i want one too.
Either via connect.microsoft.com/invitationentry.aspx or connect.microsoft.com/siteXXXX/InvitationUse.aspx?ProgramID=XXXX&InvitationID=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
I can confirm this is legit. Also, WTP will look a bit different than b9834. EDIT: By "different" I mean slight UI polishing nothing radical as those alleged b985x screenshots.