Windows 8 will NOT be out January 7th 2013... Here's Why
It's been reported by MicrosoftFeed that Windows 8 will be out on retail shelves on 7th January 2013. NeoWin have said that "None of this information is verified or is confirmed but is speculation from a reputable individual who, in the past, has provided solid information and leaks."
Let me explain why Windows 8 will NOT be out in shops in January 2013. Windows 7 was released to manufacturing in October 2009, but even this was too late for the important, nay critical, Christmas holiday sales period for PC manufacturers.
Windows Vista was released to manufacturing at the end of November 2006 and didn't hit retails stores until the end of January.
On both occasions Microsoft were heavily criticised by the press and by their hardware partners, I cannot overstress just how important this holiday sales period is to hardware manufacturers.
There's also the back to school / college sales period in the autumn (fall) and several people including tech blogger Paul Thurrott have been saying that they believe Microsoft will want a Summer 2012 release so that their hardware partners can get PCs in stores for this critical sales period as well.
Quite simply I find it impossible to believe that Microsoft will repeat the mistakes of the past unless something disasterous happens.
Steven Sinofsky, the Windows chief, will no doubt have a good idea of when he wants Windows 8 to RTM but that date will certainly not be set in stone as has been reported by the Russian website Wzor.net, which is where this information has come from.
It's understandable that people are excited about Windows 8, but will be a much tougher sell to get people off Windows 7 than it was to wean people off Windows XP. Microsoft simply cannot afford to miss these two important sales periods this time around and I sincerely believe they won't.
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Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.