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A leaked screenshot of an upgrade edition of Windows 8 may hint at a forthcoming leak.
Notorious company insider Zukona unveiled screenshots of an upgrade copy of Windows 8 on Thursday. Although the screenshots only cover the setup process of Windows 8, they do confirm that copies of Microsoft’s next-generation Windows operating system have leaked to company outsiders. It’s not yet clear whether Ivan Zukonov (Zukona) plans to leak the copy of Windows 8 in his possession. Zukona has previously posted accurate screenshots of Internet Explorer 9, Windows 7 and other Microsoft products.
One interesting part of the screenshot is that Microsoft is listing the copyright date of Windows 8 as the year 2012. Some believe the software giant will release Windows 8 in 2013, I disagree however. Microsoft demonstrated build 6.2.7867.0.winmain_win8m1.101020-1800 at CES. The build was compiled in October 2010 and represents Microsoft’s early milestone 1 work. The software giant is currently midway through its milestone 2 cycle and the latest known build is 6.2.7917.0.winmain_win8m2.110125-1757. Microsoft is expected to announce a public beta of Windows 8 later this year.
If you go to the 4th page, which you are already on and the 5th post from the bottom, you will see the pictures I think, as of right now with 93 posts in that thread.
I hate to burst yeh'r bubble... But those two images can be mocked up within 10 minutes using Visual Basic.
I did a quick and dirty one in Visual C++ and it looked somewhat convincing for a few minutes of messing.
Plus, all you need is the name of some trusted person and 3 second in paint to slap their name on it...
pizzaboy192 wrote:I hate to burst yeh'r bubble... But those two images can be mocked up within 10 minutes using Visual Basic.
I did a quick and dirty one in Visual C++ and it looked somewhat convincing for a few minutes of messing.
Plus, all you need is the name of some trusted person and 3 second in paint to slap their name on it...
^ this.
I remain to be convinced. A setup screenshot is nothing.
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Panda X wrote:I fail to see why that rule exists.
It exists since Andy does not like external image uploaders/sites/anything external since they can go offline and break the image.
Ugh, 2 minutes in VS and it can be faked quite easily.
Also, DAT WHITE SPACE. What is with all that white space, with all the text in one place? MS isnt even trying to justify that one, unlike Aero - "making the UI feel less cluttered".
Program run condition: collect keys. Deadline: 2 days.
Obviously you've never heard of preservation? The rule exists because external links can disappear at any time. By having a copy here, it is preserved in case anyone wants to look back on the image in years to come. Simple.
Obviously you've never heard of preservation? The rule exists because external links can disappear at any time. By having a copy here, it is preserved in case anyone wants to look back on the image in years to come. Simple.
Assuming that the BA website/server is still alive in the future
Obviously you've never heard of preservation? The rule exists because external links can disappear at any time. By having a copy here, it is preserved in case anyone wants to look back on the image in years to come. Simple.
Well that's certainly a nice feature to have, but I don't think people should have the image removed and a warning level increase for choosing otherwise.
Hey guys, look at what I downloaded the other day:
It's FAKE. I don't really have Windows 8. Just a mockup in VB.NET 2010. I'm also believing pizzaboy192, Rioter, PortalCake, FoobyZeeky and DeFacto that the Zukona screenshots are also fake.
I don't know, I'm pretty certain at this point that it's real. One of the more convincing things here is the quality of sites that have reported this. Sites that usually get it right posted it. Of course I also agree that this is pretty easy to fake, but my gut is telling me this is the real deal.
Also, one thing, copyright years change with the builds, so if there's a beta, it'll have the copyright of the year the BETA was released, not the year where they expect to release the final build.
My argument is that if we insist that of them, instead of getting all of what we want we'll get nothing of what we want, including any screenshots or information we may have otherwise gotten.
But screenshots or information that were perhaps legitimate would possibly come out. If you're saying to them "don't tease us with this until you leak", you're stopping these.
4 1/2 years and counting...
If only you use it, that should be more than enough.
< HAI.
