I've heard some stories but couldn't tell, anyway, many things are still undecided ATM, and like Yen said, MS could and had changed plans at the last moment, so why not take what Paul said as of now? I don't use Start menu since win8DP, but what I heard, this and windowed apps and interactive tiles etc are buggy as hell in current early builds, and anyway there's API treatments, MS probably want it to be in a Preview where people could test them and report. Nice try, Tom, you want to pull me into a flamewar where both of us got banned, a really good trade-off with your few posts.....nah, I am too old for these kind of child games.
There's almost nothing new in general August Update, that's why nothing has been leaked. As for Threshold, they are doing really a good job of keeping stuff inside the company walls.
Could you please explain to me the difference between a rumor and a multiple sourced rumor? As far as I know, a rumor is a rumor, regardless of the number of sources. It will remain a rumor until it becomes a fact.
A rumour coming from multiple independent sources is more likely to be correct than one coming from a single source.
Then you're right, I haven't followed along with the latest flame war Painter7, I noticed you reading this thread, have you got anything for us?
cool guys... seems that you relax again just like FX Shaw recommends on Twitter. I personally think there are weeks to go until we see some Win9 action. Unless one of these laid-off MSties has some vengance in mind. Personally I've got the feeling since the Alex Kibalko thing happened, people are more careful
Well that make a huge difference. It's still a rumor but like BAV0 said, it more likely to be true. What I was pointing out is that MJFoley is not going to post every single rumour, she has credibility, she will loose readers if she starts to publish everything she hear. I don't think FaiKee has much things to loose by posting on a forum. I was trying to explain to him that's good he posted before everyone else something (that's still not a fact), but that's not a reason for bitching around about bloggers who are doing a different jobs.
MJF, Thurrot and some others are nothing else like the weatherman ... guessers. Too often they failed in the past and still have a big audience
OIC, you mean MJF is different, if people bitches Thurrott (or urrr. Tom Warren), then it's OK, they don't have creditability and are "dispensable bloggers", but if anyone bitches MJF, then you would jump out and flame with personal attacks!
I can not agree with rumor 2...After all,XP can't updrage to 7 or 8, and the NT kernel version updraged so much as well...but actually win8 can do it.
nah, that Kibkalo thing had some other quality. It was fraud since he leaked internal activation data and hot confidential stuff. Leaking of some screenshots or even a preview build is regarded with other eyes at MS. Since there is nothing to leak atm, I don't wonder why there should be something. Coming up update to be released Aug 12 certainly doesn't show that much outside the hood that it is worth for a leak and W9 things are in a stage where a leak is totally useless. Time will come and we will see some information prior to a preview or RTM thhingy my two cents
Nah, it's just a rumor atm., even if it's true, we don't know what would be the mechanism, for win7->win8 upgrade, you submit a win7 key, then get a win8 key, after, download the ESD where you could either make a in-place upgrade, or burn to media then install to new machine. Yup, zukona was only fired, and many MS guys also fired too for leaking infos, Kibkalo was charged with leaking trade secrets.
responding to an alleged possibility for a XP > W9 upgrade, I'd liked the idea but I guess it will not happen at least for free. If so, many ppl would go after an outworn XP copy, install it and get a free upgrade ... nah, MS is kind of stupid but no that much
What do you guys think, is there going to be official ISO of Windows 8.1 with Update 2 integrated or is just available via Windows Update as a standard update?