Paul Paliath Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 No, Windows 8 has passed M2, it has RTM'd. 6.2.xxxx.0.winmain_win8rtm.xxxxxx-xxxx Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593550780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qdave Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 No, Windows 8 has passed M2, it has RTM'd. 6.2.xxxx.0.winmain_win8rtm.xxxxxx-xxxx no waii! :blink: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593550820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 Didn't realise SBS 2011 builds were now being considered as M2 Windows 8 builds. No-one has provided any solid proof of these so called builds at all and yet people are willing to believe some russian forums and unknown forums :/ SBS 2011 is 6.1.7900 the one talked about is 6.2.7904 it actually does make sense since both are based on Windows Server 2008 in essence SBS2011 would have some W8 optimizations Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Wonder if they'll improve SSD performance and actually have a decent media player. 12 sucks. 11 is acceptable but nowhere near how awesome media jukebox 14 or foobar 2000 are! Also looking forward to a sleeker, sexier UI. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick H. Supervisor Posted January 3, 2011 Supervisor Share Posted January 3, 2011 No, Windows 8 has passed M2, it has RTM'd. 6.2.xxxx.0.winmain_win8rtm.xxxxxx-xxxx Where did you find that? Having looked around a bit I can only find M2 stats. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Veteran Posted January 3, 2011 Veteran Share Posted January 3, 2011 Wonder if they'll improve SSD performance and actually have a decent media player. 12 sucks. 11 is acceptable but nowhere near how awesome media jukebox 14 or foobar 2000 are! There's a good chance they'll replace Media Player with Zune - to bring Windows Phone, Xbox and Windows together. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Oh god the zune software sucked so bad. eww. guess I won't be using MS media player software then. LOL Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
psreloaded Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I am not a fan of the metro UI either. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted January 3, 2011 Subscriber² Share Posted January 3, 2011 And so the Windows 8 leak rumours start... I don't expect Windows 8 to be drastically different from Windows 7. The rumours about a 'Wind' 3D UI are most likely rubbish. Why? Because Microsoft don't have any reason to introduce drastic changes. The changes introduced with 7 work as a basis for the next versions of Windows. UI-wise we'll see some refinements and small improvements over 7, perhaps a few cosmetic changes to the Aero theme, but that's about it. Some other changes I'd expect: Replacing WMP with the Zune player? Very well possible. Expanding on the web integration introduced with IE 9 beta? Definitively. Separate UI for touch devices? Quite likely. Probably similar looking to Windows Media Centre with a touch of Metro. Cloud integration? Definitely. An option to store your documents and settings in the cloud for one. More features being virtualised? Very likely, building on the functionality found in Windows Virtual PC. An app store of sorts? Possibly. That being said the above is mostly speculation. We won't know anything for sure before much later this year. The current Windows 8 builds more than likely are not much more than Windows 7 SP1 + IE9 + some under the hood changes. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 The Metro UI looks like someone threw it together in MS paint in 10 seconds. very unprofessional and very ugly. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Veteran Posted January 3, 2011 Veteran Share Posted January 3, 2011 The Metro UI looks like someone threw it together in MS paint in 10 seconds. very unprofessional and very ugly. You're just thinking off the Windows Phone 7 homescreen - have a look at the Zune software and tell me that's put together in 10 seconds. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I guess it took them an hour...... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malisk Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Funny how Windows 8 has no official build number yet. Let alone the final build. It will most likely be a final build number though. Microsoft let Windows 7 be "6.1" for backwards compatibility reasons with Vista. And I don't see a reason to why they'd now want to break that. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I can see the version number thing now. Good. I don't care really. LOL. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malisk Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Didn't realise SBS 2011 builds were now being considered as M2 Windows 8 builds. No-one has provided any solid proof of these so called builds at all and yet people are willing to believe some russian forums and unknown forums :/ Better tell this to the news editor posting this on the front page then. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593551452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
notuptome2004 Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 And so the Windows 8 leak rumours start... I don't expect Windows 8 to be drastically different from Windows 7. The rumours about a 'Wind' 3D UI are most likely rubbish. Why? Because Microsoft don't have any reason to introduce drastic changes. The changes introduced with 7 work as a basis for the next versions of Windows. UI-wise we'll see some refinements and small improvements over 7, perhaps a few cosmetic changes to the Aero theme, but that's about it. Some other changes I'd expect: Replacing WMP with the Zune player? Very well possible. Expanding on the web integration introduced with IE 9 beta? Definitively. Separate UI for touch devices? Quite likely. Probably similar looking to Windows Media Centre with a touch of Metro. Cloud integration? Definitely. An option to store your documents and settings in the cloud for one. More features being virtualised? Very likely, building on the functionality found in Windows Virtual PC. An app store of sorts? Possibly. That being said the above is mostly speculation. We won't know anything for sure before much later this year. The current Windows 8 builds more than likely are not much more than Windows 7 SP1 + IE9 + some under the hood changes. i agree but i would also assume they would add some add functionality to current features i know i would love to see some upgrades to Aero snap. i would assume because of the new Chips from AMD and intel coming out more so AMD chips that Microsoft will invest some time in to beef up the Multi-threaded dispatch and que APIs and Kernel to better understand those new chips so they work efficiently as does the core i7s in windows 7 i would also like to assume that Microsoft may do something with direct compute and offloading more to the GPU then they currently do. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593552052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canouna Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 No, Windows 8 has passed M2, it has RTM'd. 6.2.xxxx.0.winmain_win8rtm.xxxxxx-xxxx LOL! Are you kidding? "According to the..." Original thread: MDL Forums / "Windows 8 News" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593552170 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 No, Windows 8 has passed M2, it has RTM'd. 6.2.xxxx.0.winmain_win8rtm.xxxxxx-xxxx :laugh: Dude.. please Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593552234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_notm Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 i agree but i would also assume they would add some add functionality to current features i know i would love to see some upgrades to Aero snap. i would assume because of the new Chips from AMD and intel coming out more so AMD chips that Microsoft will invest some time in to beef up the Multi-threaded dispatch and que APIs and Kernel to better understand those new chips so they work efficiently as does the core i7s in windows 7 i would also like to assume that Microsoft may do something with direct compute and offloading more to the GPU then they currently do. Microsoft did the work for massive-parallelization in Windows 7. It currently supports up to 256 logical cores and can probably scale well beyond that. (see gray sidebar on left: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/nov08/11-06winserverr2.mspx) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593554076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
leakAddict Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 No, Windows 8 has passed M2, it has RTM'd. 6.2.xxxx.0.winmain_win8rtm.xxxxxx-xxxx Anyone flipping out on this quote needs to note that it is sarcasm. There is no way this was meant to be taken seriously, thus the abundance of x's Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593554088 Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 RTM? LOL Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593554850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BumbleBritches57 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 i thought Microsoft were doing the whol big version little version big version. vista was a big version. windows 7 a little version (kernel wise) windows 8 (should be a big version.) ? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593559080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macf13nd Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 i thought Microsoft were doing the whol big version little version big version. vista was a big version. windows 7 a little version (kernel wise) windows 8 (should be a big version.) ? this is a multi-billion dollar company dealing with huge external market factors. It's never going to be that simple, is it? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593559098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris123NT Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Anyone flipping out on this quote needs to note that it is sarcasm. There is no way this was meant to be taken seriously, thus the abundance of x's He is pointing out how absurd it is that people are claiming M2 has been finalized and they're using the same number of x's in their supposed build string :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593560186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canouna Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 M2 is not finalized, the M2 just started in december! http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/3937/sanstitrefvy.jpg Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/965270-windows-8-milestone-2-compiled/page/2/#findComment-593560592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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