MS : Windows Release Preview (RC)- First Week of June

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I agree. Almost every criticism was somehow related to the fact that it was a huge step forward from XP. This meant hardware vendors had to re-write drivers, software vendors had to optimize, and those which didn't had their hardware/software either slow or unusable. Also, 5 year old systems that ran XP were sluggish with Vista. That said, it was a hell of a lot smoother than the OS 9 to OS X transition.

Same is happening with 8, it is another huge step and people will take till 9 to get used to it.

To be fair on this argument (I personally loved Vista) it released in a really shoddy state. It took them about 6-8 months to fix the stupid things like DX9 games having a local copy of everything in video memory.

It launched really poor. 8 will most likely have nowhere near that bad a launch, it'll just be bashed for the start screen.

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Some links are going live

http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/winsvr2012rc/6/E/C/6EC34718-8809-4A3B-9D3C-71A16BAD413F/8400.0.WINMAIN_WIN8RC.120518-1423_X64FRE_SERVER_ZH-CN-HRC_SSS_X64FRE_ZH-CN_DV5.ISO

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Some links are going live

http://care.dlservic...E_ZH-CN_DV5.ISO

That link is going to be destroyed, bent over the table and gone into with no lube, or even a pillow to bite on, get in there early :D

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That link is going to be destroyed, bent over the table and gone into with no lube, or even a pillow to bite on, get in there early :D

Hahaha

Hold up, that looks to be a Chinese ISO.

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I keep hearing about Win8 being a flop like Vista and I have to shake my head. Vista for all the flack it got and delays managed to sell 100million+ copies in the time it was out, it hit ~20% of the total PC install base, how is this a flop? Sure it's not Win7 numbers but people forget that Win7 has been selling as well as it has and as quick as it has because it's release fell right inline with lots of businesses starting their new round of upgrades, which is also why they're not going to upgrade their PCs to Win8, something that MS knows already.

Regardless of what you think about Win8 on the desktop and so on, Win8 will do what Win7 couldn't, and XP either, sell Windows on mobile devices, tablets. Any shortcomings from desktop sales, which will just be another Win7 sale for them so still fine, will be counter by mobile devices. Say what you want but Win8 will be the OS that finally pushes me and others out there to buy a tablet or a hybrid device for their mobile needs. Even some business users who want a tablet device that they can manage in their corp networks will want a Win8 device compared to the others simply because it's Windows and has full support for all the group policy and active directory management controls that other devices lack and business wants from the start.

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