Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview

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05/31/2012

Today, Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download in 14 languages. This is our final pre-release, and includes Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, new Windows 8 apps for connecting to Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger (and many more), and hundreds of new and updated apps in the Windows Store. Since our first preview release last September, millions of people now use the pre-release product on a daily basis and millions more have been taking it through its paces, totaling hundreds of millions of hours of testing. We genuinely appreciate the effort that so many have put into pre-release testing, and of course, we appreciate the feedback too. Direct feedback and feedback through usage contributed to hundreds of visible changes in the product and tens of thousands of under-the-hood changes.

Just nine months ago, we kicked off this blog as a dialog about the design and development of Windows 8. We’ve talked in depth about building Windows 8, including the features, the designs, and the background behind these. We’ve done so in over 70 posts totaling over 500 pages if printed out and 34 videos totaling over 90 minutes, all coming directly from engineers of the product. We’ve had about 18,000 comments from approximately 7,000 people. Over 170 Windows engineers contributed to the dialog, including over 200 comments I posted (though I was out-commented by one other pretty active reader!). Of course, we’ve been carefully watching the telemetry of the millions of tech enthusiasts using the product at each milestone.

Windows is unique in this way. No other product used by so many provides such an inside view of the choices and development of the product as it evolves—and sometimes we forget that we are talking about a product still under active development even while we are discussing the designs and actively using it. The affirmations, debates, and even disagreements play a crucial role in the development of Windows. This has never been truer, as we reimagine Windows from the chipset to the experience—new hardware support, new user interaction models, new scenarios, new APIs and more, are all enabled with Windows 8, while we bring forward and improve the way Windows 7 has been used on over 550 million PCs around the world. Coming soon, we will see a new wave of PCs designed for Windows 8, along with new apps powered by the new Windows 8 platform.

The team has the deepest respect for, and is always humbled by the responses on the blog and in the stories about the posts. Thank you!

Our next milestone is traditionally called RTM, Release to Manufacturing, and from today until RTM, we will still be changing Windows 8, as we have done in past releases of Windows. We thought it would be a good idea to outline the kinds of feedback we are acting on as millions download and use the Windows 8 Release Preview.

Our focus from now until RTM is on continuing to maintain a quality level higher than Windows 7 in all the measures we focus on, including reliability over time; security to the core; PC, software, and peripheral compatibility; and resource utilization. We will rely heavily on the telemetry built into the product from setup through usage to inform us of the real world experience over time of the Release Preview. In addition, we carefully monitor our forums for reproducible reports relative to PC, software, and peripheral compatibility. We’ll be looking hard at every aspect of Windows 8 as we complete the work on the product, but we want to highlight the following:

Installation – We have significant telemetry in the setup process and also significant logging. Of course, if you can’t set up Windows 8 at all, that is something we are interested in, and the same holds for upgrades from Windows 7. Please note the specifics regarding installation requirements and cautions found on the download page.
Security and privacy – Obviously, any vulnerability is a something we would want to address. We will use the same criteria to address these issues as we would for any in-market product.
Reliability and responsiveness – We are monitoring the “crash” reports for issues that impact broad sets of people. These could be caused by Windows code, Microsoft or third-party drivers, or third-party apps. Information about crashes streams in “real time” to Microsoft, and we watch it very carefully. We also have a lot of new data coming on the hundreds of new apps in the Windows Store.
Device installation and compatibility – When you download a driver from Windows Update or install a driver via a manufacturer’s setup program, we collect data about that download via the Plug and Play (PnP) ID program. We’ve seen millions of unique PnP IDs through the Consumer Preview. We also receive the IDs for devices that failed to locate drivers. We are constantly updating the Plug and Play web service with pointers to information about each device (driver availability, instructions, etc.) We actively monitor the use of the compatibility modes required when the first installation of a Windows 7 based product does not succeed.
Software compatibility – Similar to device compatibility, we are also monitoring the installation process for software, and noting programs that do not install successfully. Again, we have the mechanism to help move that forward, and/or introduce compatibility work in the RTM milestone. Here too, we actively monitor the use of compatibility modes required when the first installation of a Windows 7-based product does not succeed. We have tested thousands of complex commercial products from around the world in preparation for the Release Preview.
Servicing – We will continue to test the servicing of Windows 8 so everyone should expect updates to be made available via Windows Update. This will include new drivers and updates to Windows 8, some arriving very soon as part of a planned rollout. Test updates will be labeled as such. We might also fix any significant issue with new code. All of this effort serves to validate the servicing pipeline, and to maintain the quality of the Release Preview.
New hardware – Perhaps the most important category for potential fixes comes from making sure that we work with all the new hardware being made as we all use build 8400. Our PC manufacturing partners and hardware partners are engineering new PCs, and these include hardware combinations that are new to the market and new to the OS. We’re working together to make sure Windows 8 has great support for these new PCs and hardware.

In fact, as some have noted, the RP itself was compiled over a week ago (build 8400). It takes time to complete the localized builds, validate the download images and process, as well as gear up all along the network edge for a fairly significant download event.

The path to RTM is well defined and critical to the careful and high quality landing of Windows 8 for our PC manufacturing partners. The changes we make to the product from RP to RTM are all carefully considered and deliberate, including some specific feature changes we plan on making to the user experience (as we talked about in previous posts). This is a routine part of the late stages of bringing a complex product like Windows to market. Throughout this process, every change to the code is looked at by many people across development and test, and across many different teams. We have a lot of engineers changing a very little bit of code. We often say that shipping a major product means “slowing everything down.” Right now we’re being very deliberate with every change we make and ensuring our quality is higher than ever as we progress towards RTM. The product is final when it is loaded on new PCs or broadly available for purchase.

RTM itself is a product development phase, rather than a moment in time. We continue to roll out Windows 8 in over 100 different languages and we are preparing final products for different markets around the world. As that process concludes, we are done changing the code and are officially “servicing” Windows 8. That means any subsequent changes are delivered as fixes (KB articles) or subsequent servicing via Windows Update. Obviously, our ability to deliver fixes via Windows Update has substantially changed the way we release to manufacturing, and so it is not unreasonable to expect updates soon after the product is complete, as occurred for Windows 7. There are no surprises here, but we’re making sure readers of this blog know what is coming down the road.

Once we have entered the RTM stage, our partners will begin making their final images and manufacturing PCs, and hardware and software vendors will ready their Windows 8 support and new products. We will also begin to manufacture retail boxes for shipment around the world. We will continue to work with our enterprise customers as well, as we ensure availability of the volume license tools and products.

Remember, if you buy a new PC running Windows 7 today, with the great support from our PC partners, you will be ready for Windows 8.

Delivering the highest quality Windows 8 is the most important criteria for us at this point—quality in every dimension. The RTM process is designed to be deliberate and maintain the overall engineering integrity of the system.

Ultimately, our partners will determine when their PCs are available in market. If the feedback and telemetry on Windows 8 and Windows RT match our expectations, then we will enter the final phases of the RTM process in about 2 months. If we are successful in that, then we are tracking to our shared goal of having PCs with Windows 8 and Windows RT available for the holidays.

On behalf of the Windows team,

Steven Sinofsky

PS: Please be sure to check the download page for system requirements, release notes, upgrade instructions, and other details on how to install and use the Release Preview.

Comments

Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Can't wait to get started!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Thank you Steven ! You really did a great job with Windows 8. Keep your good work guys !
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Thanks! Microsoft is the best!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
finally... I was waiting for two hours :-)
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Awesome work guys!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Thanks Microsoft and Steven. Will try it now.
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Awesome!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Congratulations - nice work!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
He's downloading, can't wait to use it!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I waiting for it all day today and finally! thank you MS team!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Yeahhh :D Thank Bill Gates Uncle :)
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Awesome!!!!. Downloading right now!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I have been waiting for this all day today!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
That link don't work on Spain, it leads you to: windows.microsoft.com/.../consumer-preview
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Good job guys!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Great, thank you!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
where to download, i still just see consumer preview
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Gr8. So the RTM should be out by October even if unexpected delays are taken into consideration.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
can't W8.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Where is win8 rp for poland in pl ??
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Download is available here: windows.microsoft.com/.../release-preview "Get it now"
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Where is the polish wersion ?
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Downloading Release Preview, It looks faster than Consumer
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I installed the last two previews on a machine I rarely use, just to check them out. But my primary hard drive died this week, so I've been holding out for the Release Preview to install on my main PC. Looking forward to it!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Great news on the release of the RP. Congrats to the team on hitting this important milestone.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Congrats on hitting the RC milestone on time.
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Why do you only mention Windows 8 where Windows Server 2012 is equally important and has even bigger changes and improvements?
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Microsoft's servers are absurdly fast. My traditionally slow and annoying connection pulled down the 3.3gb ISO file in 8 minutes. Kudos to you, Microsoft server farm guys!
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Congrats with reaching this Release Preview milestone!
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Thanks
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
A question regarding the release of Windows 8: Will there be a period of time before W8's release where any purchase of W7 will also be upgraded to an equivalent version of W8 when it comes out, much like what Microsoft did during the period before W7 was released, in regards with Windows Vista?
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Ship it! Great work MS teams.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
the installer is saying the my Intel Core i7 940 @2.93GHz, HT quad core doesn't meet the CPU requirements.... uh what? the message is: "Your PC's CPU isn't compatible with Windows 8." just FYI, as a few other people are having the same issue: 91.151.218.11/showthread.php
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Windows Server 2012 RC. technet.microsoft.com/.../hh670538.aspx
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
It's no better than Consumer Preview. UI is still terrible mess.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Congrat PRESIDENT :D
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
You cheated us again for the third time, Vista 1st, W7, 2nd, and now this: xpwasmyidea.blogspot.com/.../features-removed-in-windows-8.html You broke the correct approach of consistent UI design and feature backward compatibility, you broke Windows' legacy. You broke the hearts of enthusiasts. No other company disappoints enthusiasts. It is an experience full of compromises. Microsoft will learn the hard way. Bad user experience will cause this product to not succeed. Don't say I didn't warn you and hopefully you will learn from it for Windows 9.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Microsoft must have really manned the servers for the release preview. I'm already 2/3 the way downloaded and that's using Windows setup.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Thanks....just one simple question! why did you release it in such a way? very strange! people even didn't know when the release time will be!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Make that 3/4.
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
@xpclient XP??? Really??
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Windows Setup must be pulling a megabyte a second for the download. It is nearly at 2 MB a Second according to the Task Manager.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Great job guys. Keep going
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Hard to believe, but I'm already done downloading and Windows Setup is checking the download.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
In the video the tablet has a NEW LOGO!!!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Windows Setup is now preparing files.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Like...
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
32 bit Windows 8 RP English : go.microsoft.com/fwlink 64 bit Windows 8 RP English : go.microsoft.com/fwlink Those who are getting error...download ISO and burn it to DVD or Pen drive and then install it!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I am now installing Windows 8 Release Candidate and am now at 10 percent.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
The CPU of your PC is not compatible with Windows 8. lol nice work... no support for Intel i5-2500K xD
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Did anyone see the new icon for installing Windows?
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May 31, 2012
Sorry, but I fully agree with xpclient and his review. xpwasmyidea.blogspot.it/.../features-removed-in-windows-8.html
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I am at 75% on the first phase of the installation of Windows 8 Release Preview.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
on the boot screen, Preparing. I am amazed on the speed that Windows 8 RP install it is well fast and I got it on 3GB a virtual machine!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I need to restart soon as it is nearly done with the first phase.
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Hi Steven, Sorry, I wanted to post this in a different blog "Keeping your family safer", but that blog is locked out...so posting it here... I have multiple PC at home which myself and my family use it on a regular basis. Can I have a filter on other PC (my daughter's PC) and control/monitor the activity from my PC? We are in the same home network and will run the same OS. Thanks, Mike. P.S. Trying again to post it...
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Fantastic job and thank you to all the folks at Microsoft. Can't wait for the RTM
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
If you are looking for a good step by step installation guide for Windows 8 Release Preview, check this one out. It's got everything from the activation key to how to customize your installation. www.7tutorials.com/how-make-clean-installation-windows-8
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May 31, 2012
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May 31, 2012
@drfgsa: Please, try to comment in a constructive way. @Windows Team: Thank you for your work.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Thank Windows Team!!!! I can't get to get home and download it and install it on mot Dell Duo!!!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
@Leman: constructive on a destructive product is not possible. I adapt my level to the Microsoft developers. See what alcohol and drugs can do - Windows 8. Who has the worst CEO and soon the worst OS? Everything fits ;)
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
"Our focus from now until RTM is on continuing to maintain a quality level higher than Windows 7 in all the measures we focus on, including [...] compatibility" At least on hardware compatibility you are failing. While you seem to keep on pretending Windows 8 is compatible with Windows 7 compatible hardware and only say CPU should be at least 1Ghz, starting with Consumer Preview Windows 8 in facts rejects to even install on at least one very popular family of CPUs, namely Pentium M. My feeling is that you are not honest on that.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I would like to ask for app publishing support for Romanian developers. And please fix the buggy forum software that loses posts whenever two or more people compose a comment at the same time. Only the first one that clicks "post" is successful, the others lose their posts. The most annoying thing is that, the longer you work on a post, the higher the probability that another user will post something while you compose, and when you finally finish your post and try to submit it the forum software just loses your hard work.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Great job guys!!
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May 31, 2012
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May 31, 2012
Hmm, I may have been wrong in my assumption, because other people posted before me and my comment worked on the first try. So it is more likely a timeout that causes the issue if you compose your comment for too long.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Do we have to download the ISO or can we update from inside Consumer Preview (like via Windows Update?)
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Earlier with Windows XP, Vista and 7 Release Candidate always had a final graphical design/theme. Windows 8 doesn't. As I read in previous posts we will see the new theme (without Aero) only in the final version. As a software developer what I should think about Microsoft? We can't test our software for visual compatibility. It obviously that you hurry with Windows 8 and it's sad.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
The left-edge app switching works better on the Start Screen than it did in the Consumer Preview, but it still doesn't let me close apps for some reason. Is there any justifiable reason why I need to switch into an unrelated app before I can close three that I'm not using anymore? I'd prefer to do that straight from the Start Screen. It's an odd inconsistency that I just can't get used to.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Hi, I would really like in new build to have options ctrl+1, ctrl+2, ctrl+3, ctrl+4 for new work space on desktop. So you have 4 desktops and you can use one for word, excel, editing stuff, other for browser, surfing, and next one like for social, msn, skype... I mean you can put whatever you like, but I am just giving example how this simple thing can be POWERFUL!
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I have finished installing Windows 8 Release Preview. I had a slight network issue, but it was fixed when I installed the network drivers for Windows 7.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
@chefgon right-click, close?
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Why still not start button?? Is it really that difficult to put it back in?
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Thanks for doing such a greats job! Looking forwart for the release :) PS: Great to see that you have a heart to speek open about your new product without making a mystery or hype about what you are doing.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
When will the entire Windows 8 team including Sinofsky and Ballmer be fired and MS groveling asking users to come back because they fixed everything in Windows 9?
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
How do I get the Windows 8 Pro Pack?
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Great Job!!!! All hard work pays off... . I have never seen in my life such dedication to the Windows community that you and your team have shown.... You guys really care about the product and about us You guys rock!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Hi, Will we be able to group together apps into files in the final version? That could work really well.
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
With the consumer preview I was getting an issue where I couldn't connect to wifi after resuming from sleep? I tried restarting my router but had to restart my pc before it would connect again. This happended each and everytime after resuming from sleep. It would show connect to the router but limited, no internet coming through.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Ok boy... I just found out my only option is to keep "Nothing" when upgrading from Consumer Preview :( Guess I'll be running Consumer Preview until the final release is out.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Clock is 00:00 AM 20120601 … here in Denmark. Let's go ...
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May 31, 2012
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May 31, 2012
How do I get the Windows 8 Pro Pack?
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Things the final version definitely needs:

Grouping system where you can group similar apps into files that you can name, so it won't feel to cluttered.
Some semblance of the start button on the desktop interface...for the people that really want it--It really is a huge deal to some people, having that there. My main two issues with Windoww 8 so far. Just include those two and I'll be one happy duck. If not, then you'll make me and many others sad. At least give us the ability to group apps into files!!

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May 31, 2012
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May 31, 2012
I just want to say, I support Avi's comment. Give those people the StartButton back, it can't be a huge deal but allows a lot of users using the system as they are used to.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I think the RTM needs the following: The start screen should, by default, only take up part of the screen, if it is accessed whilst on the Desktop, with Immersive UI taking up the whole of the screen, if an Immersive UI app is ran. (There should also be an option in Control Panel for this setting to be changed)
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
@Sam You can download an app called VirtuaWin which will allow you to add multiple desktops for multi-tasking, what I have been using for awhile now. :-)
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Hi Steve You said: "Today, Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download in 14 languages" On the download FAQ page, I only see 13 languages listed? Regards
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May 31, 2012
So far the RC is nice, but it still has (what I consider) to be a stupid design decision. When I press the Win key the search results should be for Apps, Settings, and Files. If I want just one of the three I can press Win+Q, Win+W, or Win+F respectively. Just pressing the Win key should combine results from all three.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Thanks Microsoft!
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Can we put apps into files yet? Because, at this rate, it's going to look so cluttered if therer are none.
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Thank you for releasing in Arabic language. WP is still lacking Arabic and Hebrew support.
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
On the topic of updates, has anything been done about the "C:WindowsInstaller" problem? I just checked mine and it's 12.8GB. Back on XP, that was about the size of my entire system drive (Windows + Program files)
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I found a few bugs, running the RC in my virtual machine in VMWare Fusion on OS X.

Swiping right to the edge of an app causes the app to bounce back and forth about 40 times.
Although it's easy to add locations, favorites, etc. to apps, it's often very difficult or impossible to delete them. For example, the weather app got my location wrong. I tried to change the default and remove the wrong location. To do this, I had to: -Search for a new location. -Click on a search result to add it (although it looked like the results had already been added). -Right click on it to bring up the toolbar. -Make the new one the default. -Right click on the old one -Delete it. And you can't delete the current location without adding a new one! That's 6 steps to do something that should be trivial. In the news app, it's even worse. I added a new section of my choice (worked fine), and then tried to delete the default Microsoft section. I can't find any way to delete the default section. It appears that sections can be added, but never deleted.

Anonymous
May 31, 2012
We want the start menu back!
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Did it come for the release candidate stage to it being eight Wndows(es)? By the way, doesn't IE10 turned Windows 7 come out easily? Please advance also here in parallel. Probably, it is good by the same specification as those for Windows 8 desktops. Thank you for your consideration.
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
нопасаран !!! :)
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
In Windows Explorer: provide "Find duplicate files" feature w.r.t name and file signature AND provide a way to group selected files color-coding so we can sort files based on colors too (color coded custom categories -- like happen in mac). Also provide the ability to roam Favorites via skydrive so we can access our favorites anywhere we go..natively in IE10 and via BingBar for other versions and other browsers.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Other than mouting and reading the ISO and VHD files, is there a way to create the ISO and VHD files in Windows 8 ?
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Omg, please bring back the start button. It's just a deal-breaker to me and I'll probably just stick with windows 7.
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Congratulations and thank you very much. :)
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Ni modo, hora de probar y ver que app hacemos :D
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
How about html5test result: http://html5test.com What is the current score or IE10 ver latest?
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
What is the current score of IE10 latest version*
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
This OS is the best. Thanks for this blog extensively driving us through the superior innovations in windows 8 so we can win any argument against stupid apple fan boys and ignorant people in general. I wish I had a similar blog for win7 in the past. Sounds s weird but Microsoft rocks )
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May 31, 2012
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Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Great news! I wonder if there is any Win8 tablet under manufacturing with no or minimum edges? Full immersive chromeless experience that is!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Will Windows 8 RC be upgradable to the final release?
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
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May 31, 2012
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May 31, 2012
Would love to upgrade from Consumer Preview (already installed) to the Release Preview but the installer says my machine doesn't meet requirements, which is a joke because my machine blows those requirements out of the water. What can I do?
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May 31, 2012
Will be added to.Start button back completely & is not remodeling show free application is actually is is like can displayed button and start menu of Windows 98 era in the classic shell, this is what?(images is Japan word roughly will know. ) images: 2ch.at/.../20mai00547986.PNG classic shell: classicshell.sourceforge.net/index.html
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
So, I've finally gotten the Windows 8 Release Preview to work, but I had to install it in VMware (it had many problems running on real hardware). Hopefully, you will fix these bugs, since the Release Preview running on real hardware crashed before I could install any graphics drivers (which seemed to be the source of the problem).
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Win8RP setup (dvd boot) fails with error: "Windows cannot install required files: 0x80070570"! This is despite dvd crc matching iso crc !? Back to good old Win7!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Surely this won't be a requirement for RTM, right? "To install Windows 8 Release Preview on your PC, the processor (CPU) must support the following features: Physical Address Extension (PAE), NX, and SSE2." answers.microsoft.com/.../a2c11f2c-d43b-44fc-9bc0-61805a2d95ef
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
READ PLEASE Thank you for such a great job. Glad to see a neat old Windows logo on the site =) I hope you senses. And keep Aero Glass option to release. All users will thank you!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I was kinda hoping there would be some more safety-net type things, like the My Documents and My Computer type links defaulted to being on the start screen. It can be a little annoying looking for the latter, especially when you forget that now it's called Computer instead of My Computer so it's not coming up on the search. Still, great release guys!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Loyal Windows user for over 20 years, but there is NO way this dog's-breakfast of an OS will EVER be going onto this machine. I have NO interest in tablets, and LOATHE the idea of a touch-screen PC. And I'll only ever use Android on my phone. Epic fail, Microsoft.....!
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May 31, 2012
hey Microsoft. r u blind . Go reas the reviews over CNET and engadget.com ... every single person is hating windows 8 .. i dont know .. weather uv got something really surprising in stores for us ... or u v gone mad
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
Great job MS!
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May 31, 2012
a great project！
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May 31, 2012
Thanks microsoft is the best
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May 31, 2012
Will you guys eventually decide to incorporate music controls into the system? or we'll just have to snap the music app!!!
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
I absolutely love win 8
Anonymous
May 31, 2012
It's rubbish. I've uninstalled it already.
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May 31, 2012
I hope you guys are working with Leap Motion. :D
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May 31, 2012
@Waseem Music controls from a keyboard are there. And if you have a hardware volume button, it brings up a media control overlay like on Windows Phone.
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When you go to Control Panel > Turn Windows Features On Off, it says "PowerShell 2.0", when actually PowerShell 3.0 is installed.
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May 31, 2012
Amazing Work Microsoft!!
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May 31, 2012
@Amy Gx The fish represents Windows' beta milestone. You can see why here: en.wikipedia.org/.../Betta
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Great! but Steven and teams I can’t believe how lazy you all are about UI design – why am going through set up with these old looking Vista Aero windows and XP icons – it’s almost like for everything that makes complete sense in your hard work you fail to realise the importance of visual presentation. Please consider getting this new desktop UI and other elements right this time!
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Sorry for the double posting. I did not refresh before retrying. Thanks.
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May 31, 2012
Great work! However, I have one major concern. Here's hoping someone at MS will explain this. I've installed the Preview on two machines, but only themes sync across devices. What's going to happen if I purchase an upcoming tablet or a new PC? Am I going to have to reinstall each app individually for each machine and redo groupings on the start screen? I see this becoming a major hassle and something I'm not willing to do again. It's time consuming and frustrating. I thought the point of syncing settings was to avoid this very thing. Is anyone else frustrated about the lack of apps synchronization?
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May 31, 2012
Looks great, can't wait to try it out!
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Ok, now Microsoft has made it perfectly clear that they are not planning on businesses adopting Windows 8 and have instead chosen to target a new generation of consumers that have been fully indoctrinated into the concept of Microsoft = evil, Apple = good. I guess that is their choice, but this is going to be quite enjoyable watching them crash and burn as they alienate their friends to chase some fantasy of Windows 8 on everything with a touch interface... lol.
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To be perfectly honest, at this stage I wouldn't even bother pirating it. So I can't see myself buying it. Long live Win 7.
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@Kevin R. You can install all your apps on a new PC by going to the store and right click for the app bar and clicking "your Apps". You can then select all or pick the apps that apply to that PC. We don't sync things that are likely dependent on the PC you are using -- for example, grouped programs probably are different (as are the programs) on different PCs with different capabilities and screen sizes.
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May 31, 2012
Wow!
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May 31, 2012
Great news ! Congrats to Microsoft...Windows 8 will surely change the computing/operating system landscape..
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May 31, 2012
I've just finished to install the RP on my laptop, and i can't wait to use the final product on my next build. Keep up the good work, Steve you the best and Windows 8 rules!
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May 31, 2012
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May 31, 2012
Fixed link for the hideous "dotted" border: http://i.imgur.com/08C5m.png
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May 31, 2012
I can't stop thinking: all the people that this is designed for have already bought a Mac. Now everyone else is going to have to buy one, too.
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May 31, 2012
What's the point of a Mac if you have to start ALL OVER again? It's even worst than using Windows 8 because none of your programs are compatible. I am using Windows 8 RP right now, and IMO, it's a better than Windows 7 (or a Mac). The "dotted" border is a huge pet-peeve of mine.
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May 31, 2012
@Nicholas Piasecki to get to the Mail settings swipe from the right or mouse to bottom right corner, click Settings. Tim http://www.itwriting.com/blog
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May 31, 2012
I can't wait Windows 8 launch event... I'm downloading release preview now. :)
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May 31, 2012
I think Windows 8 + New types of pc/tablets hybrids will be a killer combo ;) I think in 2-5 years time the whole computerlandscape will have changed to something exiting. Great job! Can't wait ;)
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@Windows 8 Team, -Hybrid/Fast Boot isn't functioning properly if I change the active partition (to a different partition than what Windows 8 knows when it's installed); Win8 cannot shutdown at all - need to disable the feature in Control Panel. This behaviour is observed in both beta (Consumer Preview) and RC (Release Preview). -This scenario is possible in multi-boot systems where each/individual partitions have OSes with their own bootloaders available making it possible to change the active partition's location. Regards.
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May 31, 2012
This interface is and continues to be terrible on a desktop computer. Having to choose between this or Linux / MacOS, guess what I will pick? It's much easier in the world of WINE and virtual machines.
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May 31, 2012
OK! I give up! Can anyone recommend a good Linux distro for a long term Windows (versions 3.1 to 7) user?
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"OK! I give up! Can anyone recommend a good Linux distro for a long term Windows (versions 3.1 to 7) user?" Try Zorin OS 6. It is also in RC stage and because it is bsaed on Ubuntu 12.04 you get security fixed for 5 years: zoringroup.com/.../zorin-os-6-core-release-candidate-has-landed Pictures: zorin-os.com/gallery6.html
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May 31, 2012
"Our focus from now until RTM is on continuing to maintain a quality level higher than Windows 7" wake me up when your focus will be AT LEAST SAME LEVEL as Windows XP.
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May 31, 2012
@Steven Sinofsky Great Job... Windows 8 is a PERFEKTION... Please remove all this TROLLS People...
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May 31, 2012
good work microsoft! another great storm cooked up for the masses :)
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@Eric Hill You CAN search for apps in App Store, just go to Charms Bar, Search, and select "Store" in the list below.
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I'm not interested in a tablet OS. This is the first time I won't be trying a Windows pre-release version. By the way, highly ironic that the Windows 8 Preview homepage uses Silverlight after the way you've treated your Silverlight developers. Shame on you, Microsoft.
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May 31, 2012
Thanks Microsoft and its Team
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May 31, 2012
"..."we appreciate the feedback too." Feedback? Are you actually telling us that there was a possibility of feedback?
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May 31, 2012
Since 1995 being always a faithful user and coming up next. Keep up the good work guys
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May 31, 2012
It would be nice to get some confirmation on whether various things are stable now. Specifically the on-disk formats for Storage Spaces and ReFS, i.e. if a pool and ReFS filesystem created in the Release Preview will import and work correctly in the final version.
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@ Steve S. PLEASE SAVE US FOR ALL THIS TROLLS
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May 31, 2012
I can't see any trolls. Well,,,,,maybe one:-(
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May 31, 2012
How much it hurts the truth eh?? Microsoft is interested in positive and negative feedbacks, but the last ones are ignored....
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May 31, 2012
Thanks for your work, Microsoft. I really enjoy your OS
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May 31, 2012
Microsoft is the best for releasing free previews and testing the stability of the OS based on consumer feedback, reminds me of Nokia beta labs, they have been doing things like this for years :)
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May 31, 2012
Congratulations to the MS team. Installation is the best Windows has ever been. May want to change "creating account" to "setting up account". Creating implies a new account otherwise very smooth and fast. Have not had a chance to fully explore but a big huge thanks for the ability to change desktop text size elements. Wouldn't mind being able to change the font type as well. In Search would like to see an option to suppress web links in App search results. The new color options for the Start Screen are nice but would really like to set a custom background image. Really looking forward to the final release.
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@Floske Tuf GOODBYE !!!
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May 31, 2012
@Anony... Please take WINDOWS 7 Thanks
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May 31, 2012
I refuse to install this on my home PC until Pinball FX2 is available! Work PC and laptop are up and running though, I did briefly get up at 6 this morning to make sure the .iso was downloaded by the time I got to work at 8 :D Also, boot to .vhd is awesome!
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@ Steve S. PLEASE SAVE US FOR ALL THIS TROLLS
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May 31, 2012
Start Screen turned blank, and then Windows show the NVIDIA Display Driver error.
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May 31, 2012
What's up with the setup telling me that my i5 2500k (@ stock) is not compatible? This must be an oversight. Please sort this out asap. I don't mean to sound negative but I'd put money on the fact that no mobile cpu's have this issue! Get your priorities right for once guys- don't just pander to the iPad using fools!
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@ Homocarbon You are the only troll here !
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May 31, 2012
Best quote of the entire blog "OK, if I was a teenage mall-rat whose primary interest was checking Facebook to see who got laid last weekend it might be different. As it is I'm processing photography on a powerful Xeon-driven desktop and Windows 8 just looks like a poorly engineered toy." -AZJack
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May 31, 2012
Good bye Microsoft.
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May 31, 2012
Downloading.......... i hope I will enjoy this...... :)
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May 31, 2012
Does anyone know why the latest version of Watchtower Library crashes every time I close it on the Windows 8 Release Preview, I cannot contact the Publisher's technical support because they don't provide one? So I'm hoping that someone here will have a workaround for me.
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May 31, 2012
ERROR: Please, check mounting ISO, copied in Desktop in Windows 8, installed in Parallels. I see error, when trying...
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ERROR: Please, check mounting ISO, copied in Desktop in Windows 8, installed in Parallels. I see error, when trying... Screenshot: http://yfrog.com/obii4uaj
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May 31, 2012
Very nice!
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May 31, 2012
Awesome!! I'm using it right now, since yesterday's release and indeed: it is improved! Everything improved, better, even if you compare to Consumer Preview, you see and feel differences!
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May 31, 2012
That's it... Kudos to the engineering team. Everything now slows down for the big event... This blog has taught me a lot about Product Development, Quality and Attention to detail.
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May 31, 2012
I want to set black color for windows chrome, but I can`t see black text on black window chrome (without transparency).
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May 31, 2012
I wiped the tablet I was testing W8 on, and re-installed this version. Now it won't install apps from the Store. Anyone have any idea what might be the problem here than I can check?
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May 31, 2012
Hmmm, tells me my E5200 dual core @ 2.50GHz doesn't meet minimum requirements. It ran the previous beta fine (except for SATA support), I guess they want to make sure anything running Win8 does it with a decent amount of headroom?
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May 31, 2012
Congratulations WinDevs! Super work! Looking forward to the RTM release and the new Design for the Desktop!
Anonymous
June 01, 2012
The ribbon in the desktop Explorer windows is too white, I think. Or a very light blue, too light. It is ugly. Even when you close the ribbon, that other color is ugly. Should be more luminous or blue.
Anonymous
June 01, 2012
Two Words: Start Menu! I've loved Microsoft products previous due to their great options and choices. Windows 8 strikes me as a NO CHOICE OS!
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June 01, 2012
I like your Windwos 8. You're the best guys. I am waiting for new managed framework from you.
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June 01, 2012
I cannot install on a fresh Virtual Machine using VMWare Player. It's odd, because I currently have the Consumer Preview running on a VM in VMWare Player. My host is Win7 x64. I'm trying to install Win8 x64, and when I boot to the ISO, I get the following error: Your PC needs to restart. Please hold down the power button. Error Code: 0x0000005D Parameters: 0x000000000FEBFBFF 0x0000000028000800 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
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I get an error when I try to set a picture password: "Enrollment Failure. There was a failure during the enrollment process. Please try again later." This happens when I have to select the picture. I can no longer set a picture password in Windows 8 Release Preview...
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June 01, 2012
How can i make Windows to install updates right at that point? It only says, that they are ready and will be installed some time. But i want to give my users fully patched and ready machine, so i need to update it manually. Will i'll be able to at least set the deadline via WSUS?
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@Eric Hill .. re: your comment that the Windows 8 Store doesn't have search, or that it's hidden so you can't find it. It's where search is for ALL apps now... start-screen, desktop, anything: The Search Charm. Just bring up the charms, select search, and search the windows Store to your heart's content. So yeah, it's "Hidden". And yeah, it takes a lot of getting used to... this hidden 'search' charm being app-specific, and doing different things based on the context you're currently in... it's sort of "out of sight, out of mind" to me, and I have to keep reminding myself it's there.
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June 01, 2012
I like Microsoft's products, but I think Windows 8 will fail. I tried it and I hate it. Will be sticking with Windows 7 until Microsoft realizes how poorly Windows 8 was received and fixes all the problems in Windows 9.
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This makes me a bit worried. Will the traditional desktop be a well supported option in 8 and future releases? I sure hope so!
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The new video application is much improved from the consumer preview just a few suggestions
By default it arranges by name and date (the date the file was created) where Title,Genre,Year (the year the movie was released) would be more useful. Explorer can already do this so it shouldn't be difficult to implement.
The 4:3 fixed thumbnails are fine for untaged content but if your movies are tagged usually with the poster image it is cropped and centered.
The blue background is a bit bare it would be nice to have the wallpaper or the start menu background instead I couldn't get my movies into the start screen of the application as despite saying so in the help file the search indexing cpl wouldnt list my shares or mapped drive and even using shlib.exe to manually add the share to the library wouldn't get the files to show up in the video application. Good progress all round.
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Is there no longer a MSFT Connect invitation code for TechNet subscribers to download the feedback tool to report bugs?
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June 01, 2012
It still has aero, so I'm still okay.
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What is "Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter" and why was it eating up to 30% CPU resources (by "system interrupts") on my PC after a FRESH install? Winodws was able to install certified drivers for all devices itself. As soon as I disabled this "virtual" network adapter and restarted, problem solved.
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June 01, 2012
Steven Sinofsky , I saw your operating system . Start looking for a new job . Cause you will lose this after the big WIN8 comercial fail .
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June 01, 2012
I am very disappointed with Windows 8. It runs on both my Desktop computers, one from 2003 with a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz CPU and an AGP Ati HD2600, and the other a Core 2 Extreme 3.0 Ghz CPU with an nVidia 280 GTX. However, my Alienware laptop, the m15x with Core 2 Duo Processors (last one made by Alienware), a notebook that has been able to run Windows XP, Vista, and 7, both in 32 and 64 bit flawlessly, while installing Windows 8 Developer, Consumer and now Release Preview, I get an ACPI Bios Error. So much for running on all systems capable of running Windows 7, right? Please make sure you loosen Bios requirements, because this is happening to many computers and considering the problem keeps existing on the Release Preview, I know it will be on the Final Release.
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Your designers are doing such a bad job – it is actually making me want to cry. Why on this earth do you even allow things like those royalty free photographs of compact discs to be placed on the music section of the Windows Store – I am now beginning to realise just the ridiculous complacency that you are capable of as a company, get real about design – it is perhaps the most important thing and you are messing it up. UI needs to be absolutely pixel perfect and to the modern standard in such an important product, sigh… big sigh…. If I was Steve Ballmer, I would be going down to the designers getting them in a meeting and gicing them the hard word - these guys are just not doing their job properly or are not qualified to design for such a big product - it lets down the whole team.
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June 01, 2012
Finding/Installing apps can and will become a pain very quickly. I am browsing a certain category and it is not easy to tell which apps I do not have. Yes, there is a nav bar icon for apps I have, so I can re-install them on a different PC but it would be cool if I could see without clicking through, if an app is owned or not. Makes sense?
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June 01, 2012
Reimagined from Store to recycle bin. http://i.imgur.com/9BYQ7.png
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June 01, 2012
I made a video on how to set up windows 8 properly: www.youtube.com/watch
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June 01, 2012
Corner mouse capture needs not not happen when you are dragging a window! I keep accidentally maximizing it on the wrong monitor when I was trying to drag it to the other.
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June 01, 2012
I wish in the consumer previews and in this release preview got to the "custom set up" portion much sooner in the setup process... I get nervous that it will overwrite my regular os.... I perfer to dual boot until the final comes out. Also frustrates the fire outta me that I can't run apps, etc. on 1024X600.... there are so many 10 inch machines out here that have 600 as its upper end.... puhleeze change this!
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June 01, 2012
Tried installing it on my old lappy: didn't work. The older preview did install, although I couldn't find most of the drivers. Was looking forward to testing the new release... I'll wait for the final product.
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Hi, I found a bug in the release preview that is a regression from Windows 7. Repro steps:

Add a custom toolbar for a folder to the taskbar. Place it above the main taskbar.
Add the address toolbar, and place it to the right of the custom folder toolbar, but still above the main taskbar.
Lock the taskbar. The custom toolbar and address toolbar take up too much height -- the address toolbar has a large amount of "whitespace" above it, and the custom folder toolbar has a large amount of whitespace "below it". The two are not vertically centered (which looks sloppy), and the overall taskbar takes up much more room than it needs to. Windows 7 did not have this problem.

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June 01, 2012
we need silverlight...please!
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June 01, 2012
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss
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June 01, 2012
Well said, LK Griffith. Again.
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In the new OS boot screen where you see the list of OSes you can boot, the keyboard arrow keys no longer work for me and the countdown reaches 0 and it always boots the default OS. Only if I move the mouse, then the automatic countdown stops. If you press the Tab key, then the arrow keys work. As soon as the screen is displayed with OS choices and countdown to default choice, arrow keys - Up, Down, Left and Right should work.
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June 01, 2012
And please keep the new Task Manager as TM.exe and the old one as TaskMgr.exe. I told MS that for backward compatibility and some features not implemented in the new Task Manager (xpwasmyidea.blogspot.com/.../how-microsoft-broke-task-manager-in.html), the old one should be kept. BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hello Sir, I downloaded Windows 8 consumer preview ISO file and installed it in a garage computer and really liked it. My garage computer is an old workstation with dual zeon cpu running at 3.2Ghz with 4G of ram. Enter the Windows 8 Release Preview. Doing the same procedure, it gave me an error that my CPU is not compatible. Loading a Windows 8 release preview bootable media (DVD) it gave the following error: Your PC needs to restart Please hold down the power button error code: 0x0000005D Parameters: 0x03070205 0x756E6547 0x49656E69 0x6C65746E What am I doing wrong. Windows 8 consumer preview works on this computer........
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June 01, 2012
I'm experiencing poor low res graphic like : http://i.imgur.com/VL0U5.jpg
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June 01, 2012
I'm experiencing poor low res graphic like : http://i.imgur.com/VL0U5.jpg xpclient is a good tester, MS dev team pay attention to his feedback.
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June 01, 2012
The windows 8 video shows me none of the reasons why I ever bought a PC. Win8 a social toy at best. I'll pass. People seem to like the change, well why dont those same people buy MAC or try linux ???? Win8 is that different.
Anonymous
June 01, 2012
UI opinion aside, it works much better now, and I can actually say that I am using what Microsoft considers, for the most part, to be their vision. I like it a lot.
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June 01, 2012
I've told my customers they should skip windows 8 for business, it will only cost them money while employees play and relearn instead of doing real work!
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@WindowsVista567 (anonymous commentator) Internet Explorer 10 currently scores 319 and 6 bonus points out of a total of 500 points in the Windows 8 Release Preview.
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June 01, 2012
Oops, forgot to post the screen shot img.photobucket.com/.../Win8-3-taskBar.jpg
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June 01, 2012
Beware of downloading Windows 8. The only way you can go back to windows 7 if you don't like it is to reload it and all your programs. vintage Microsoft- nothing for nothing. they give you no warning that your stuck with it!!
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June 02, 2012
Please, the START MENU in the classic desktop, PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE!
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June 02, 2012
All source engine games have broken mouse (mouse capture/mouse cursor).
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June 02, 2012
Hello, Running Hyper-V on Windows 8 makes all my video playback go green :D
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June 02, 2012
@andrewz -- Please report places where the product is "buggy". Feel free to use http://win8.ms/forums or the email contact on this page.
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June 02, 2012
Hi Steve! When the polish language pack will be available?
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June 02, 2012
Question for the Windows 8 Team: When are we going to be able to connect to services on Windows 8 besides Facebook, Windows Live (or whatever we call it now), Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter? Services such as Yahoo and AOL would be good to connect to as well as other social networks, especially for your People Hub and Messaging service.
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Dear Steven, I am a Windows Beta Tester and I would like to give you some advice. Can you send me your Email address? Thanks, Coen
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I see in the Release Preview, the old Task Manager is now fully removed. What was the reason for this? Although the new Task Manager is nice, the old one provided certain functionality that new one seems to lack.
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PPS: The possibility to manage the copy processes is great and I missed it for a very long time, but I will not substitute my Copy Handler, because I cannot force it to do all jobs one after the other. It is good to have to possibility to pause a job till the job before is ready, but I have to control it manually. I am sure the next step would be logical and easy to implement and a great improvement for many users.
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June 02, 2012
PPS: I liked the BackupAndRestore in Vista/W7, because I could select what I want to safe and what not. I do not use libraries in W8 anymore, because I do not want to backup the content of them. I have only one library to select the suff I want wo BackUp :-(
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June 02, 2012
Can't wait to get going!
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June 02, 2012
Still no start button?? And still no ability to group apps together in files?? If neither of these get implemented into windows 8 come launch = no buy from me, sorry. Will stick with windows 7.
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June 02, 2012
Why is there no start menu still?!!! >.<
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June 02, 2012
at least give us some sort of semblance of the start menu. don't completely ditch it.
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June 02, 2012
This is fantastic and is a huge milestone for Windows . A week early even! Kudos MS!
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June 02, 2012
start button or no buy!! I'm serious. That thing is very very helpful. Otherwise, you might as well call windows 8 a tablet-only os.
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Do not like it all. I'm on a computer not a f*ing phone. I'll stick with Windows 7.
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June 02, 2012
@Kevin, dotted border around the link in IE is for users who prefer to use keyboard (to indicate where the current focus is). IE-Team respects keyboard users since IE4... if you prefer not to have dotted border around the links and button in your website and you don't care about keyboard users like FF Chrome and other players, then use the following CSS rule in your website's static stylesheet file: a { border:none; } and IE won't show it on your website. Since, most people want to make websites for both keyboard and mouse friendly. Making outline with default is to help the people intensely using keyboard to navigate the web. Now, if your favorite browser is not helping the keyboard guys, then who is to blame? Definitely it ain't IE! Tip (to keep outline but avoid disturbance in design): If you want to keep the outline intact, but your design has something like a hyperlink wrapped by the div or span, and you have onhover selector defined for the wrapping element, in that case the difference of dimensions between <a> and wrapping tag might looks ugly when <a> is focused. You can solve this by making the dimensions of <a> equals to the wrapping element, something like: /* let's say myDiv is the class/id of wrapping element & wrappedBymyDiv is the class of wrapped anchor / a.wrappedBymyDiv { width: X; / where X is the width of myDiv / height: Y; / where Y is the height of myDiv / display: block; / to avoid inline restriction, otherwise the dimension rules will not work */ } Hope this help.
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Can you add PDF, DWG and PSD preview (optional)? Is very useful for workers (there are many tweak online but they don't work with 32bit, others only with 64bit etc...) And more option to customize graphics and chrome metrics/position?
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June 02, 2012
Also... I know this is a temporary theme, but that different background is ugly: http://i.imgur.com/v91NE.jpg (follow the arrow) in Seven the rappresentation is more, more elegant: http://i.imgur.com/S7gKK.jpg
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June 02, 2012
Imagine you want to find some desktop setting and change it. Try this:

Go to Start Screen
Type "desktop".
You have to manually select "settings".
Select one of the setting.
Windows switches to desktop.
Now imagine this was not what you have been looking for and you want to go back to search results.
You simply can´t. You have to go back to Start Screen and start all over with type search, select settings etc. There are no words to describe this level of user interface stupidity.

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June 02, 2012
@Darren: I don't know which specific setting you mean, but... have you tried to open charms, select "Settings" and then "Control panel"?
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@ andrewz Desktop was just an example. It happends to any search conducted via Start Screen that you cannot go back to your search results. Once you select one of your search results there is no way to go back to the results page other than start all over. Plain stupid.
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I love the work you've people done so far. Windows 8 has come a long way since DevPreview. It feels lighter and snappier than ever. Waiting for a final desktop theme and hoping for some cool animations and refreshed icons. However, there's one thing that still feels a bit awkward to me and that's the way you bring up the Charms and AppSwitch bar with a mouse. I don't think targeting a corner than sliding along the edge of a screen is the best nor the fastest way of doing this operation. Wouldn't just touching the edge with your cursor than right-clicking be a better solution? It would also make sense, I think. Use the advantage of a mouse, the right click. It feels natural, in my opinion, just as swiping from the edge. The way it is now is not only arguably slower and harder but also collides with some other operations. For example, a number of third party desktop apps have their menu buttons placed in a top left corner of the screen. Targeting these menus by simply slamming your cursor in the top right corner is not possible anymore. Even the Windows' own Desktop SneekPeek feature partially triggers Charms. I hope it's not too late in the development but I would very much like to see this implemented at least as an option but I highly doubt it. I honestly hope some of Windows devs read this post and I would like whoever read it to reply and let me know if they share my opinion.
Anonymous
June 02, 2012
Darren, I am not sure why you want to do it the long winded way. The faster way is

Hit Wins Key.
Click on Settings ,
Type what ever settings you want to change - font, resolution, wifi, mouse ... How many steps would it take in Win XP/7 ? If you like to use the Control Panel, Press Win+X and select Control Panel.

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June 02, 2012
Oops, it should be

Hit Wins Key.
Type what ever settings you want to change - font, resolution, wifi, mouse
Click on Settings ,

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June 02, 2012
After rebooting, Windows 8 will no longer recognize my DVD drive. ¬¬'
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@SG You did not read my related post or you did not understand it: No matter what search you conduct via Start Screen once you select one of the results they get lost. There is no way to go back to the list of results. If a user is looking for something he does not necessarily know the right place or name for it this is what the search is for. So it is likely that a user who is using the search would select a result that does not do what he is looking for. So if he wants to go back to the result page to select the next result he simply can´t. It is just not possible. Instead user has to run the same search again and even has to remember which results he has already selected before. This is so stupid I cannot believe this has passed Microsofts QC.
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June 02, 2012
Feedback - Feature Request: Hello, when I've tested W8RP under heavy load with many installed programs, I've found the following problem: -many 3rd party programs add their custom menuitems to right-click menu and when too many programs are installed, there is an unacceptable delay between the right click (on the desktop, WinExplorer folder, taskbar) and appearing the right-click menu (even 30 seconds or so on my 6-core i7-970 with 24GB RAM) with the Aero mouse pointer (blue circle) rotating over and over. Suggestion: Could be the menuitems of right click menu loaded the same way, as the items of the list "Programs and Features" (in Control Panel) are... (I mean one by one, independently, appearing gradually),... so the menu itself can appear immediatelly, only some 3rd party addons will appear a little bit later when they will be loaded. For me it is the reason to buy W8, if it will be changed... :)
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@EVERYBODY WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT CLASSIC START MENU: What would you say about a solution like this? picasaweb.google.com/.../AbbIBXTbgxtpLyBHfFUzLtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0 (just a quick sketch; maybe just category names could be shown) @Darren: I think that this solution could satisfy you. :-) picasaweb.google.com/.../V3vnSg-SPxXS-7H1d31K2tMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0 (not available yet, just a quick idea)
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June 03, 2012
why the file browser doesn't have tabs? like internet explorer
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June 03, 2012
Thanks! Is more better than consumer preview :)
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June 03, 2012
@Steven Sinofsky Will you add integration with Microsoft's music services to Windows Media Player? The current Music app is inferior to the existing Windows Media Player, and for users of desktop PCs, it makes sense to integrate Microsoft's music services into Windows Media Player and to integrate other applicable services into other desktop apps, allowing these services to reach a wider audience of Windows 8 users.
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@Steven Sinofsky: Let's start with a simple visual bug: http://youtu.be/KF6VbNhEkxc . I know, it's a detail. I have already discovered many more serious bugs, but they require much detailed description (so I will unveil it later). Do you want me to present it one by one or all of them at once? :-)
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Still no option to return the Start Menu! This RC has hanged more times than the Beta :/
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June 03, 2012
@DMack The problem is that tablets, kiosks, cars, boats, trucks, phones, TVs, terminal input devices, home automation panels, home appliances, interactive signs, etc. are single-function devices, while PCs are designed to perform many functions from a single place.
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guys , you still complain about start menu?!! haven't you get tired ! get over it and grow up a little .
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If only Microsoft had spent (less) time and money to make serious improvements in Windows we would be looking forward with excitement W7.5 or what ever they wanted to call it. A new Windows release with the traditional Windows workflow that provides support for the newest hardware would be something to behold. I guess I'll be waiting for Windows 8 Desktop, or Windows 9.
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Oh Man! The Aero on Release Preview is sooooo nice! Keep it on final version, please. So beautiful!
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my pc crash even long or short period use,memtest 100% coverage still no error detected..i dont wnt migrate to w7 ;( need solutions..
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Its a shame you are removing Aero to be honest as this new flat aero look in the RP looks very nice although the process bars are a bit dull compared to the glass effect. Please at the very least give us the option to keep it! I also agree with the calls to add a shutdown option on the start screen. Having it in the settings button makes no sense at all.
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June 03, 2012
Also bring back some customization... http://i.imgur.com/QQz06.png http://i.imgur.com/Y6fuU.png
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June 03, 2012
Ugly annoying charms clock scrambled: http://www.picfront.org/d/8Gfy
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June 03, 2012
Dear Steven, Given you have invited comments to your blog post, I think it would be helpful if your team could mount a timely (if not realtime) response to the feedback you are receiving. Best wishes, MTFM
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June 03, 2012
When should I be expecting the RTM version?
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@pmbAustin: The Start Screen Search ist not worth anything. This artificial distinction between apps, settings and files is odd. An normally you would first display ALL results and then let the user apply a filter. So it should be that while the cursor is in the textinput field all results are shown and then the user can click one of the 3 filters to only display what he is looking for. But as said the distinction is odd. Websites that have been added to the Start Screen show up as "Apps" in that search.
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June 04, 2012
@Darren: Don't forget that you can also search from ordinary file explorer via Ctrl+F shortcut. Or you can use the search bar which stands next to address bar.
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A few problems with multiple boot: I have three systems installed (xp, 7 and 8RP) but while installing 8RP (on top of 8CP) it added a fourth entry to boot menu, "previous versions of windows", selecting it just give error message followed by reboot. xp failes to load after installing w8RP. W7 regional setting was changed after installing 8RP, causing LOT of problems with excel files due to changed decimal separator. There are two different boot menus (W7 style and W8 style), which one I see on boot depends on which system was last used. These cannot be by design, right?
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can you change the mouse icons in windows 8 to the one you use in green on the xbox smartglass demo. imageshack.us/.../capturemea.png
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Big issue after enabling Hyper-V. I had to restart to make the change and at the restart I received "Unknow harderror". All titles except the desktop and the store have disappeared. All pinned items to taskbar also. I can't search for a programs.. after a second reboot random titles appeared but not the pinned items... I will reinstall.
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June 04, 2012
Hi, The weather app show Offline and doesn't update when I create a Hyper-V switch
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Windows Team, Please make the brightness control continuous (with smaller step) rather than straight away 20% jump when using the laptop control or Windows control. Currently, in Windows 7 and 8 if my brightness is 100% and i start lowering it from the keyboard button, it will hop to 80% on first press then 60% then 40% and then 20% and thats all. In Mac, it would dim the screen more fluidly and continuous (perhaps they set the step to 1% rather 20%) and the most amazing thing is: they lowest brightness is 0% (totally dark screen) which makes sense. I hope you will consider it for future release and thank you for bringing making Windows OS better and better.
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June 04, 2012
I have noticed that in my upgrade of windows 7 to the windows 8 RP that direct access is not working. the GP was applied and the tunnels are up, but for some reason I don't have connectivity. it was working on the consumer preview, but not on this version.
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June 04, 2012
awesome changes in explorer window, really like the inbuilt image Mounting Feature.
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Just finished moving back from using Apple products. Windows 8 on an UltraBook + Windows Phone + Xbox + SkyDrive + Window Live = superb ecosystem. Now just need a decent W8 tablet!
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Windows 8 Release Preview causes my machine (HP Omni 220, Core i7, 8GB RAM) to lock up constantly, usually after only about 5-10 minutes minutes of use. The system will freeze - the mouse will still move around the screen, but does nothing. Didn't seem to matter what I was doing, or whether I was on the Start screen, in an app, or on the Desktop. Only way out was to yank the power cord or reset with the power button. I ran Consumer Preview on this same device with no issues.
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Update the icon of "Windows Defender", because is ugly, and reminds the bad original Windows Defender of Vista, the Windows Defender of Windows 8 (MSE) is a great software, for that icon; update please the icon. Also, update to the theme of Windows 8: imageshack.us/.../81999237.png And let´s see, retouch a little Windows Media Player in appearance, starting with the, ugly background dark aurora.
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@Steven Sinofsky, the Windows Team, and All Blog Readers This post will be the last of my comments on this blog. The Windows 8 Release Preview has been launched, and other than a few things that have already been mentioned, I do not expect any major changes from the Release Preview to General Availability. I can finally say that, despite its flaws, Windows 8 is a good operating system, and I am pleased with the job that the Windows team has done. If anyone was offended by my comments on previous posts, I apologize. If any of my comments were percieved as offensive, annoying, or "trolling," it was unintentional, and I am sorry. To Steven Sinofsky and the Windows Team, good luck releasing Windows 8. I look forward to seeing the final product.
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June 05, 2012
@andrewz That isn't a simple visual bug, but rather a design choice. in the case where you are closing a bunch of tabs this design allows for you to quickly close them -- deferring the tab resize allows for this. We don't resize the tab until you move the mouse.
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June 05, 2012
@Steven Sinofsky: You resize the tab even when my mouse cursor remains in the area of the tab. www.youtube.com/watch
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June 05, 2012
Steven : Thx to you & your team . I am downloading the release preview of windows 8.
Anonymous
June 05, 2012
Now... if only OEMs start building hybrid laptop-tablet (like Asus Transformer) with Intel/AMD x86 processor in it... this Windows 8 would be a perfect OS for both business and general consumer (not sure for geeks though) -- Hybrid OS for Hybrid Hardware
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June 05, 2012
@Y.M.T: Actually, I used a bluetooth keyboard with my Asus EP-121 and found the whole experience extremely lacking. But I agree with you that to even get close to usable, that is the only form factor that I would look at if I chose to spend my own cash on a Windows 8 tablet. But at this point, I have no plans to.
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I had similar problem with Windows 8 Release Preview 64bit. The installator told me that "media drivers" are required. Although I had I selected them from my harddrive, they were not accepted. 32bit version works fine (if I omit all the imperfections of a software that is still in development).
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June 06, 2012
I have had a few problems- I wanted an upgraded IE. Somehow this morphed into Windows 8. I do not like the absence of a start menu, and a shut-off button, and the programs that have gone missing from my computer- Word, Photoshop, for example. Some things seem easy to operate, but again, they seem to be addressed to tablet/smart phone users, and not to someone who is used to desktops.
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June 06, 2012
@Steven off topic Do you have planned any way of adding for PC users all retro Windows themes back? I mean... win 95, 98, ME and 2000 (all of them seems the same, but they are quite different each other), windows XP, Vista and 7... I really dream of having the win xp blue theme on my windows 8 PC. This themes should have icons, sounds, wallpapers... and so on.... I'm talking nonsenses?? or a posibility during the time?? I hope you can deliver us some of those nice Windows retro themes :D
Anonymous
June 06, 2012
Suggestions for Windows 8 final version: www.ingens-networks.com/.../Windows-8-Sugerencias-para-la-version-final.aspx
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June 06, 2012
Microsoft gave away free tablets to reviewers to ensure positive feedbacks with the Consumer Preview. Now with the Release Preview there are no more free tablets, reviewers have to test on their desktop and the critics flow in: blogs.computerworld.com/.../windows_8_tablet_reviewers_give_thumbs_down_to_windows_8_on_pcs Windows 8 on stationary computers is a nightmare. With Windows 7 you pretendet to listen to you users. Now with Windows 8 you don´t care at all. Mr. Sinofsky how does it feel knowing this os will fail and being responsible for it?
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June 06, 2012
Honestly, one of my biggest (of several) usability issues with Windows 8 is the start-screen search defaulting to 'apps only'. Nine times out of ten when I search, I'm searching for a control panel settings or applet. In my mind, there aren't any distinctions... and I don't understand why there is such a distinction in the Start Windows search. Even if all you did was, by default, combine apps and settings in the results, the product would be a hundred times more usable for me. As it is now, EVERY time I search for something, I end up having to take my hand off the keyboard, move it over to the mouse, and then click the "Settings" option. Because there are ZERO hits in apps, and exactly 1 hit in settings... why wouldn't it default to selecting that ONE hit? It's clearly the correct one! I like the categories for FILTERING, but it shouldn't be the case that if there are zero app hits, that I would have to manually select Settings, where hits exist. It should default to the first category where hits exist. Or default to a union of results (at the very least, apps and settings) so that I don't have to take this extra step EVERY TIME. This is probably the most frustrating aspect of the new UI to me. I got used to most of the other changes, but this one is just constantly and consistently annoying.
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June 06, 2012
My sad Christmas: This year the place underneath my Christmas tree will be empty. No new Windows Phone, no new Windows Server, no new Windows 8 and -after reading reviews on Windows 8 tablets- no new tablet. Great. I am looking forward to Christmas. :( THANK YOU MICROSOFT!!!!
Anonymous
June 06, 2012
I love windows 8, I want to thank Microsoft for their hard work. Majestic. Accountability and powerful.
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June 06, 2012
@John W. Hooper Thank you for your contribution, MS-bot.
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June 06, 2012
I like the tile interface. Windows 8 look is very bold beautiful and fluid. im so happy for codename:Windows 8 and i think Windows 95 was a big deal for users and developers alike. Overall, this release feels smoother, faster, snappier, and more stable. with this your luck can be perfect. now with touch you can have all your requirements plus even more. and dont forget mark as anwser
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June 06, 2012
I hate windows 8, I dont want to thank Microsoft for their work. Ugly. Useless and ridicilous.
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June 06, 2012
BTW, Let me add, that I am not a naive user, I am a IT developer (more than 10+) years of exp in Windows ;-).
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somehow I feel it not stable
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June 06, 2012
Why no 720p support? Why 768 minimum. Why not even 600p support. FAIL.
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