People are mad because a bunch of "journalists" and "leakers" pushed the hype about an "Update 2" featuring all that cool stuff that NEVER was announced as an "Update 2". Microsoft talks about some stuff they are working on. Says they will be available in "future Windows updates". Next thing you know, update 2 is confirmed by everyone and their dog except Microsoft themselves. Instead of waiting for real information people ran with any little thing they heard and pushed hype for something that never was. The real thing gets announced and everyone is upset at Microsoft for hype they didn't create. Then "journalists" and "leakers" all over the internet throw hissy fits or start hinting that they knew it wasn't what was hyped all along. Suddenly they start saying things like "oh update 2 was broken up into individual updates a while back from what I was told a while back" or "I knew it never existed and never said I did". Except they talked about nothing but "update 2" for months lmao. Now it's "they canceled Threshold to release it as smaller features through WU. Wait, let me go back and change CANCELLED to THINKING ABOUT ABANDONING THRESHOLD." Except people out there have actually seen builds and know exactly what's going on with Threshold and don't need to pull nonsense from out of nowhere. Plain and simple. That's exactly what happened here. A good chunk of you got excited for an update that Microsoft never actually announced or confirmed then got pissed at them for not delivering on something they never actually confirmed to be doing. Were they originally going to release a bigger update? Maybe, but that still doesn't change the fact that people blindly pushed that hype for months without ever actually questioning it. Edit: Removed a rant. I won't let others get on my nerves from now on.
M8, it's only 1 thread. You didn't have to view it. When I was at a recent show a MS rep thought there would be one...
No. What happens here are ego games. Those who think that they are different or 'know' it better are most involved! It's about to know something better or to know something what another one does not. Sometimes it escalates because two or more egos are fighting. An ego always wants to be right, does always argue by putting the other into the wrong. This also affects moderating. The right way to do is to do it without to vindicate the action. The subject "news on windows upcoming products" is means to an end. IMHO people are mad, because they take the entire thing far too serious. This thread and its purpose is pure entertainment, yes almost comedy. What is it about? About a minor update of an OS that has the same future as Vista had. Ego games can be quite funny, but sooner or later they end up all with insults. Only those who have the ability to keep sufficient distance = don't take it too serious can play this game.
I can wait the 3 1/2 hours for the update. If people have waited this long for the update, surely a few more hours won't hurt.
No KBs with those files yet, waiting to make sure they are the actual aug update...hope it is correct tho.
Excuse my noob question, but do you guys think there will be ms original .isos with integrated August update?