yeah well all about windows 8 or some know as "midori" well i dont know what img are real and what are real, im still interested to see the final, final interface that it will have, still waiting for the build 8100

Why want 8100 when you have 8102!

May be for the collection?

Good point.

A maximum

man I've missed a lot, now if only I could find a copy... The public developer preveiw just isn't as fun as real BETAs are.

No offence, but I don't see how that could possibly be true at all.

The widely available Developer Preview (Build 8102) is much beyond that of any of the earlier builds in terms of functionality, not to mention that it even has Metro enabled - the earlier builds did NOT have Metro enabled in any sense, apart from certain smaller portions of it being implemented.

The earlier builds also required most of the updated features to be updated - this is not so for Build 8102, of which has them already enabled by default.

Finally, the earlier builds were not much different from that of Windows 7 in terms of functionality, yet there are numerous differences from that of Windows 7 in the more recent Windows 8 builds (Build 8102 and similar builds onwards).

I meant that later builds will be neat to see, I probably won't get to see them, but the point is that a Beta is a Beta, 8102 is available to the public, so its not as rare. I will admit its neat to see the Metro UI evolve, just like the Start menu in Chicago, from build 58 to 490, it has changed a lot. And with Win8, its the same thing, changes in the making, from old to new. (did that make sense?) It will be neat to look at the betas in 30 years and say, "see, this is how windows evolved, bit by bit." . And I'm sure there will be many more exiting builds leaked, too! And I didn't mean to offend you in any way, WinPC, I just never had 8100, so I didn't know.

Well, if you don't already have a copy of it, you can download Build 8102 here, once you have access to the FTP server.

Mmmm.. Windows builds are still leaking even though two Microsoft employees have already been fired...Wonder how do they do it??

Isnt Build 8175 out or somethin

Build 8175 has been exposed at CES 2012, but it's not leaked. (Yet).
It's like Build 7867, exposed at CES 2011 but not leaked.
But this thread is about build 7955, not 8xxx builds.

Hello there! I'm interested in the issue track a cell phone of Build 8175 that has been exposed at CES 2012. Has it been leaked already?

Sorry, it hasn't been. They only showed it off to attendants at CES 2012, but they never actually released it (that is, they never actually handed out copies of it to the attendants themselves).

Your best bet, really, is to wait until the Public Beta (Consumer Preview) is released in just over a week (February 19th), since it is quite similar to that of Build 8175, albeit further updated since then.

I downloaded it, but need to get a hold of the ISO to burn. Too bad you can't just "update" from Windows update lol.

Might I ask what the "red pill" is?

It's the method Microsoft used in these early milestone builds to protect various new features like the new Task Manager or Immersive. It's also a reference to The Matrix.

I knew it was a reference to The Matrix, but the Microsoft point I did not. So thank you, But would they want to protect those things?

It's a protection method against leaks. If the builds get leaked (which they did), the stuff they were working on would be hidden until someone activated the red pill.

or it is a method to hide the unfinished stuff full of bugs (remember the metro ie from 7850)

Why is the M2 topic still here? Aren't it supposed to be LOCKED???

No, it isn't supposed to be locked. Someone might have to contribute a new find or fact that it wasn't previously found. Discussions about betas are never dead, no matter how old the build is.

Indeed. Longhorn seems to be one of the biggest beta talks even now, several years after Vista was released.

Even though pretty much all the discussion about Longhorn seems to be "Can I run Longhorn as my main OS?"