Wednesday, February 8th 2012
Windows 8 Consumer Preview Inbound for MWC
On the sidelines of mobile computing's biggest annual international event, the Mobile World Congress (MWC), held in the end of February, Microsoft will hold a special event, titled Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The company sent out invites to the event, to its industry partners. The event will be held on the 29th of this month, and will be a two hour event in late-afternoon (3 PM - 5 PM). The synchrony of this event with MWC speaks volumes about the direction in which Microsoft is steering its OS business. Microsoft clearly wants to go big on operating systems for portable computing devices, and as such is converging this kind of OS with those for more powerful PCs. The convergence will at first be functional (similar UI, some inter-compatibility), and later structural (Windows-on-Windows ARM)?
Sources:
Engadget, ZDNet
9 Comments on Windows 8 Consumer Preview Inbound for MWC
LinuxApple MacOS (buy Macs).I don't the get the point in the whole "Metro" UI design, it looks like a training program for chimps (push the right color for banana).
Way redundant on desktops, especially since you can't turn it off. You can do a registry edit to castrate the bloody thing but that makes other important functions fail.
It's a developer preview so new features are going to be front and centre as that's the stuff developers need to see, since they can undoubtedly already make products based around the traditional windows UI.