I had a brief look on both TechNet and MSDN a minute ago and realized that all 8.1 preview announcements in "New Downloads" are removed. Last night, they were still there. Perhaps they need room for something new
Anyone else curious about how the bloody hell this thread got to be 75 pages even though nobody has the ISO yet?
boredom possibly. Now, and when it is finally released, I see it as one of the biggest non-events since windows started
I'm fairly confident it's fake as well. Usually the only reason to release a screen cap is when you upload an iso, to prove it's legit. If you don't upload the ISO, why bother posting a screenshot? You're not proving anything except maybe that you can use photoshop.
Yup so true and these days people do this kind of crap just to make themselves look good to get themselves followers or hits to websites ..
To be fair, though; their analysis is not correct. The screenshot seems to be of a lower resolution. The lower resolution watermarks do seem a little fuzzy around the text.
It could be that someone who has a legit copy, posted a screenshot somewhere. Then he simply took that screenshot and slapped that russian POPCORN fist logo on there and upped it here. Either way, we need the ISO, not a screenshot. PPL can shove screenshots up their ass till we get an ISO.
the thing is that the screenshot itself is fake... as Zac proved it... I thought there was something fishy with that watermark... because on the previous builds they were all almost attached to the taskbar but I said to myself "let's wait and see".
well... again... it looks off because it's lower resolution. You can get the same effect by running win8 install in a vm. The desktop will be in a low resolution. You don't normally see it on a real system because win8 complains if you lower the resolution below 768p On a vm though you don't have that.
I don't know... I'll load up win8 on a vm, take a screenshot and post it, and you can compare it to the 8.1 version...
Probably too embarrassed to show his face here... or he would just come back and say something like "awww but I didn't know that the picture was fake" also, that wouldn't explain the fact that he told us that he's already downloading the iso from his "Microsoft cave source"