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wraggster
April 28th, 2011, 00:30
While Microsoft has not announced the release date of its follow-up to Windows 7, an early pre-beta version of Windows 8 (http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/384322/another_windows_8_pre-beta_surfaces/) (although its official name has not been confirmed) has surfaced on the Internet, the second version to appear within a month. It is the second milestone release that has showed up on the Internet this month. Users of this Windows 8 software have said it features a Ribbon-based user-interface, similar to the one used in recent editions of Microsoft Office. This specific milestone build also has software for a Webcam, a new task manager, a PDF reader and an immersive browser.""Surfacings" like this tell me that Microsoft sees the value in crowdsourced opinion gathering far more than they're sometimes given credit for.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/27/0036246/Another-Windows-8-Pre-Beta-Surfaces