Remember not too long ago when Microsoft seemed poised to willfully ignore their users by letting a major Flash vulnerability in Internet Explorer 10 go unattended for months so that everything could roll out at once when general availability opened up? Apparently they realized that this was not the smartest move. In the short term [...]
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Shortly after the announcement that Microsoft had hit the RTM milestone with Windows 8, along with the release of a schedule for distribution, the Enterprise version of the new OS was leaked across the web to a number of popular piracy sites. Naturally people are interested in trying out the finished product, but downloading illegally [...]
The beta period for Windows 8 has been fairly impressive and surprisingly well polished so far. The Release Preview is already largely viable as a daily use operating system. That said, many have been eagerly anticipating the day when Microsoft would declare the software ready to be released. That milestone has now been achieved. As [...]
In order to stay on track for an October release date, which we have to assume is the unstated goal given history and the timing relative to the holidays, Microsoft needs to get the Windows 8 RTM build ready to go soon. According to rumors out of the tech blog world, they are specifically looking [...]
