Is Windows 8 out yet?

I got an email with this:

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/F...oratenews.aspx

Peter Jason wrote:

> I got an email with this:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/F...oratenews.aspx

You trying to convince us that you have never heard the word "demo".
Uh huh.

We should sack/fire that bitch called: Julie Larson-Green, Corporate
Vice President, Windows Experience. Trump could do this for us!



Peter Jason wrote:
> I got an email with this:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/F...oratenews.aspx
>

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:00:19 -0500, VanguardLH <> wrote:

>Peter Jason wrote:
>
>> I got an email with this:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/F...oratenews.aspx
>
>You trying to convince us that you have never heard the word "demo".
>Uh huh.

....Uh...well, the site doesn't say "demo", though there is a
small-lettered word right at the bottom saying "demonstration" though
this may not be the same thing because it refers to the small video
there.

Peter Jason wrote:
> I got an email with this:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/F...oratenews.aspx

Disposable o/s for disposable devices.

On 06/15/2011 07:22 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
> I got an email with this:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/F...oratenews.aspx
>

Hi Peter,

We are in the marking hype build up stage. We probably won't see
a beta for a couple of years. My guess is that M$ marketing is
trying to float a trial balloon on their iPad look-a-like
desktop to see if they can generate any positive public
interest. I am not much of a fan of "OS as Amusement Park",
but I have no choice in the matter. If I did have a choice,
it would be faster than XP, twice as stable as XP, and compatible
with all XP programs. But I don't think I am going to win this one.

I would also like just two versions of Windows: 32 bit and
64 bit and buy what ever custom apps you want from the M$
store. Never going to convince marketing on that one. :'(

-T

"Peter Jason" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:00:19 -0500, VanguardLH <> wrote:
>
>>Peter Jason wrote:
>>
>>> I got an email with this:
>>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/F...oratenews.aspx
>>
>>You trying to convince us that you have never heard the word "demo".
>>Uh huh.
>
> ...Uh...well, the site doesn't say "demo", though there is a
> small-lettered word right at the bottom saying "demonstration" though
> this may not be the same thing because it refers to the small video
> there.

How about the title line starting with "Previewing"?

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:56:11 -0400, "Seth"
<> wrote:

>
>"Peter Jason" <> wrote in message
>news:...
>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:00:19 -0500, VanguardLH <> wrote:
>>
>>>Peter Jason wrote:
>>>
>>>> I got an email with this:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/F...oratenews.aspx
>>>
>>>You trying to convince us that you have never heard the word "demo".
>>>Uh huh.
>>
>> ...Uh...well, the site doesn't say "demo", though there is a
>> small-lettered word right at the bottom saying "demonstration" though
>> this may not be the same thing because it refers to the small video
>> there.
>
>How about the title line starting with "Previewing"?

Of course I realized that any promo may not tell the full story, hence
my query to the cognoscenti and Gnostic literati here. But I think
I get the gist.

"Todd" <> wrote in message
news:itc57e$6ki$...
> On 06/15/2011 07:22 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
>> I got an email with this:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/F...oratenews.aspx
>>
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> We are in the marking hype build up stage. We probably won't see
> a beta for a couple of years. My guess is that M$ marketing is
> trying to float a trial balloon on their iPad look-a-like
> desktop to see if they can generate any positive public
> interest. I am not much of a fan of "OS as Amusement Park",
> but I have no choice in the matter. If I did have a choice,
> it would be faster than XP, twice as stable as XP, and compatible
> with all XP programs. But I don't think I am going to win this one.
>
> I would also like just two versions of Windows: 32 bit and
> 64 bit and buy what ever custom apps you want from the M$
> store. Never going to convince marketing on that one. :'(
>
> -T

I'd like a system whereby the OS is kept separate from the applications and
data. Therefore if something went wrong with the OS, just a click of a
button would reload the OS from the cloud and all is back to normal.

Dream on! Yeah, I will be waiting years for something like this. So in the
meantime I will stay with XP.

Warren Smith

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:29:26 +1000, Warren Smith wrote:


> I'd like a system whereby the OS is kept separate from the applications
> and data. Therefore if something went wrong with the OS, just a click of
> a button would reload the OS from the cloud and all is back to normal.
>
> Dream on! Yeah, I will be waiting years for something like this. So in
> the meantime I will stay with XP.
>
> Warren Smith
>

Any version of Linux will do that.