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[Neobond]

Ben Dyson, on 04 December 2011 - 11:31, said:

Also, 'My Computer' has been renamed to 'Computer', I posted it on the article but thought I would post here as well.
The source is the same as the above, Win8China.

The "My" prefix was dropped in Vista mate If you're running Windows 7 have a look in your Start Menu

[Chemaz]

shouldn't it be PC Settings instead of PC settings?

[Neobond]

Chemaz, on 04 December 2011 - 11:49, said:

shouldn't it be PC Settings instead of PC settings?

Yeah you'd think so? But third screenshot in the gallery (above comments) also has it: http://www.neowin.ne...ws-8-build-8158

[+Mephistopheles]

http://www.winrumors...tro-style-apps/

[FaiKee]

Yeah, I just noticed that in the PCBeta screen-shots of 8158, it is changed to PC settings, must have missed it.

Actually, in WinUnleaked, canouna has put up a video(mentioned by Mephistopheles in post#19) which showed some glimpses of the Metro Control panel, but it was quite out-focused, and I guess it's still called "Control Panel" in that video shot.



btw, the thing about "computer" is the change of the Simplified Chinese translation, in fact, it doesn't even apply to Tradition Chinese transllation, that's why I didn't mentioned it.

[FaiKee]

In MDL those guys also had a confusion about the "computer" mentioned in win8china, I gave an explaination, and believe I might as well put it here too:

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- about "Computer": it is the change of Simplified Chinese translation in zn/CH, but when you guys translated the win8china blog, everything is in English, and gave you the illusion it is about en/US.

When the term "computer" was first introduced, in Traditional Chinese it is "electric brain", in Sim. Chinese it is "calculating machine", but in real life everybody calls it electric brain.

In XP, zn/CH showed "My Electric Brain", in Vista, some wise guy changed it to "Calculating Machine", now in win8, it's changed to "Electric Brain", that's it.

[FaiKee]

New feature in build 8158 "storage Spaces", posted in PCBeta

http://bbs.pcbeta.com/viewthread-948763-1-1.html

[FaiKee]

http://soft-forum.ws...-2.31323/page-4

[John Callaham]

Thanks again for the tip..we've posted the Storage Spaces news on the front page
http://www.neowin.ne...eature-revealed

[FaiKee]

Actually in a earlier Technet Blog, MS had mentioned the Storage Spaces/Pool feature in W8S, but the fact that this feature is available in a win8 client build CP(canouna had mentioned that it is available in all latest win8 builds), does it imply that this feature will be included in win8 client builds? atm it is just to anybodies' guess.

http://blogs.technet...age-part-1.aspx

[FaiKee]

build 8165:

http://winunleaked.t...-latest-builds/



What's interesting is canouna added in MDL:

http://forums.mydigi...ll=1#post516222

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If I play with the summary view gesture (with finger) this look like this:

[Neobond]

FaiKee, on 06 December 2011 - 13:13, said:

build 8165:

http://winunleaked.t...-latest-builds/


What's interesting is canouna added in MDL:

http://forums.mydigi...ll=1#post516222

We're putting something together now

[GP007]

Being able to shrink the older "icons" like in the above picture will be sweet, wonder what other new things they've added/changed.

[Canouna]

Hey FaiKee,
Just discovered you was also a neowin member

[Jan]

Canouna, on 06 December 2011 - 17:41, said:

Hey FaiKee,
Just discovered you was also a neowin member

Canouna