HALiD Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Yesterday the notorious Russian leaker WZOR confirmed that he also has both x86 and x64 versions of Windows 8 Enterprise RTM and that they would be leaked to the web, with the "Pro" versions "to be released soon" as well, both x86 and x64 of that edition would also be offered. These leaks are different in that they aren't "N" editions that have Media Player stripped out, and are supposedly "untouched" (bootable) images from Microsoft. The previous Enterprise "N" leak wasn't bootable and had a key embedded into the installer by the leaker. Canouna of WinUnleaked also went as far as to confirming the news just over an hour ago on Twitter. This follows yesterdays news of the Windows Server 2012 leak, and Thursdays news of Windows 8 Enterprise "N" being made available just some 24 hours after Microsoft handed over the bits to OEMs. Microsoft has had an impressive, unprecedented record with Windows 8 testing, almost no internal builds leaked online during the test phase, maybe due to variations of the above wallpaper, who knows? We like to think that the three offerings to the public went some way to making sure internal builds were less important to leak, or maybe because the test group was that much smaller than that of previous Windows versions. For those willing to wait until August 15th (if you have an MSDN account), you can still download the Release Preview and upgrade to the RTM (apparently) when it becomes available for download; or you can whet your appetite with this video walk-through of the leaked RTM. View: LiNK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Microsoft has had an impressive, unprecedented record with Windows 8 testing, almost no internal builds leaked online during the test phase, maybe due to variations of the above wallpaper, who knows?Well, I don't think that folks found it interesting enough to leak it, this time around - FWIW, I read Daz himself evincing total lack of interest in Windows 8 (adding that he might possibly come up with a loader after the OS was final.) I did comment earlier, that - there's no fever in this release (Windows 7, on the other hand had set us on fire right at pre-beta stage.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digimon Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Microsoft has had an impressive, unprecedented record with Windows 8 testing, almost no internal builds leaked online during the test phase, maybe due to variations of the above wallpaper, who knows?Well, I don't think that folks found it interesting enough to leak it, this time around - FWIW, I read Daz himself evincing total lack of interest in Windows 8 (adding that he might possibly come up with a loader after the OS was final.) I did comment earlier, that - there's no fever in this release (Windows 7, on the other hand had set us on fire right at pre-beta stage.)the only way a transiton to the new metro user interface could have or shoulda been done is to do it a lot like windows 95 and dos where you could boot into a dos mode and or windows mode except this time it be windows mode metro mode thats what they shoulda done i suspect windows 8 will not be well adopted but it may pave the way for windows 9 as people are exposed to metro and get use to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMan Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Download links..?jk :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 5, 2012 Administrator Share Posted August 5, 2012 @RocketMan & zed: Metro should have never existed in the first place. It's a POS. I'll be honest, it's ugly as f*ck and even if one installs it on mobile, it's going to remain ugly.Now that it does have metro, they should allowed people to disable it completely, simple. Even a 10 year old retarded kid would have better understanding than Microsoft on Metro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko666 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Is it so that if you have a legit key for Windows 7 Ultimate, that you can upgrade to Windows 8 upgrade license for $40 ?!And when ?!What date ?!Cheers... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiLmEgZ Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Well I searched on PirateBay and found these listings for Windows 8 RTM... http://thepiratebay....ws 8 rtm/0/99/0 It looks like WZT released the Professional Edition AND they have released the Official MS made BOOTABLE Enterprise DVD! From one of the releases found from the link above: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.8.PROFESSIONAL.RTM.X64.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT BUILD: 6.2.9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247 FILE: Windows_8_Pro_EN-US_x64.ISO SIZE: 3,581,853,696 byte SHA-1: E63C1D3733532ABC7AB28F3D61526E361E80271A MD5: 7A10316A79A543F2BF4953A4332B4323 CRC: 5D7BB5F4 NOTE: this is original M$ image. This distributive can be installed with Retail or Volume non WMC (Windows Media Center) license keys. by W.Z.T 8|3|12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDMVP73 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Is it so that if you have a legit key for Windows 7 Ultimate, that you can upgrade to Windows 8 upgrade license for $40 ?! And when ?! What date ?! Cheers... ;) Yes, that is true, it's only $40 to upgrade from any previous edition of Windows (XP on up) if you do the digital download. They will also sell a physical DVD copy for $70 at retail stores. To my knowledge, it won't go into effect until the general availability date (October 26th, 2012). The "promotional upgrade rate" will be valid through January 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko666 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Thanks for ur reply TDMVP73... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JunkInternetMail Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 It was explained to me that there are 2 core development teams that build Windows Operating Systems...kinda like the 2 teams that did Call of Duty (before the split).2000 (Team A) then WinME (Team B ) then XP team (Team A) then Vista (Team B ) then Win7 (Team A) and now Win8 (Team B ). I'll try to find some evidence to support this...It's not as if the most talented people aren't asked to write code but ultimately the pattern is pretty clear...every other release cycle the shittier team is up to bat and no one get excited...Win8 has quite a few interesting changes but ultimately 7 is so good I know WIN8 will NOT be as mainstream as M$ says it already is.Apple also is making its OS for retards dumbing it down and removing the guts that hobbyists and developers love to play with...everything is going towards the undereducated tap to see magic that even West Virginians love.Sad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDMVP73 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Thanks for ur reply TDMVP73... :) No problem. Like your hair, never thought I'd see a cute girl into technology! :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko666 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 I fooled everybody.. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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