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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Unveiled at Mobile World Congress

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http://www.thevarguy.com – Remember the hype over the invitation to Microsoft’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview? Microsoft has finally unleashed the beast at Mobile World Congress 2012. But what’s so different from this preview vs. the Windows 8 developer preview in September 2011? Read on for all the details you need to know … The Building Windows 8 blog, naturally, has detailed all the ins and outs of the new consumer preview, encouraging inquiring minds to download and test it out. And there’s good reason to — Microsoft took all the feedback from the developer preview to heart and make “ove (IT news)

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It's a developer preview (far as i know, it's the last preview), the real W8 will launch a bit laterBut we should talk about WHY at the whole W8 level, not just why it's available. They need something new for people to buy new licenses, so they need to get out new staff.Wrong things with it (in my opinion, as i have used the developer preview a bit at work):1. task bar ??

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