We don't know what Modern UI 2.0 looks like, but wouldn't it be funny if they released this same hybrid start menu for update 3 while 9 gets additional makeovers like gradient background and/or a "light" version of aero glass?
to my knowledge update 3 is either canceled or never was planned. next windoze certainly is kind of W9 or whatever name
One thing that will help the start menu nicely is replace settings app with control panel tile and you would be set.
second picture shows (to use pre release windows store you must register your Microsoft account ) is this the new activation method using Microsoft account ?? i think windows 9 will be the first un-crackable windows
activation process definately will be altered but due to these many enterprise/bizz accounts worldwide, they will not override it and some fellows will have the key to new paradize, at least on MDL
New sites are posting these pics as real it's kinda sad i mean tech sites should be smarter then this lol
Tom Warren "confirmed" screenshot are real deal. Tom Warren was never wrong. Tom Warren knows stuff...
Please elaborate... Several other sites with reliable sources like The Verge, Neowin and WinBeta have confirmed that the screens look legit!
Everyone is falling to the same well-done fakers' booby traps, including all the sites that are reposting these pics: there are no "reliable sources" nowadays anywhere anymore. They "look legit". This is what the fakers (and I have a weird feeling that all the fakes are Microsofter's job (and numerous of his clones), as part of WZ's unsuccessful tryouts to regain trust) want you to think that it is real, to gain attention, no more. Firstly there are very certain rules about build's intended usage tag assignment, and secondly: you cannot take a screen from a working system on this time, because if such a build would exist, a screen of this cannot be done by about 24 hours later (+ server download time, installation time etc). The build date was always been the indication of when the build has been started compiling (those who know how to compile stuff know how much time it'd take compiling such a huge thing as Windows), not when it has been finished. Take also into account that this is Pacific Time, and the default time zone is also -0800 . And builds must undergo internal signing before they would be available for use AT ALL, INCLUDING internally. No screens can be done in such a short timeframe. Now regarding AngelWZR claims about this build in apps logs: it is maybe true, but only partially. As per the above there is no such build, and the fact that Store app statistics can only list major.minor.build.delta only, he might have seen this build number taken from another lab's build user. The only real thing then, is "6.4.9795.0". Nothing more.
Tks arseny, it's very observative, my friend simply told me this morning that the watermark is fake. Also, AFAIK, there is "something" in win9 and win8.2(Threshold) builds, both desktop and metro screen, without this "something", the screenshot is fake. (I don't know what is this "something"). btw, about the build nos. shown in @Stealth's Store log, he said MS people doesn't use 3rd party apps for testing, and there is only 1 download for every build, so probably by some twist of fate, an OEM guy habitually used his apps for testing, and that might also explain why it only started from 97xx(I think it's 9740).