Microsoft is launching the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 on February 29. Heres what testers may see once the bits are downloadable.



From All About Microsoft:

Those who already have downloaded and have been testing the early Windows 8 bits (the Developer Preview, released in September 2011) will have different expectations than those downloading Windows 8 Consumer Preview bits for the first time. Those who’ve been test-driving the bits and studying the thousands (and thousands) of words in every “Building Windows 8″ blog post authored by the Windows 8 team are most likely going to be looking for user interface tweaks. They’ll be watching to see, as former Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Hal Berenson put it in a recent blog post, “Can Windows 8 Metro succeed on the desktop?”

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