107w ago - The Windows 8 Build 6.2.7955.0 M2 has been leaked on to FTP server on BetaArchive according to one of the members there. This will soon lead to a public leak in the form of torrent file (available now).
This matured build according the member sports Ribbon UI, Application Folder, Immersive browser and full DWM. Other features like Webcam, TaskUI, PDF Reader etc can be unlocked preferably using the tools already available.
This is considered to be the un-traceable version of Windows 8 M2 namely 7955.fbl_srv_wdacxml.110228-1930. The
screenshots of the very same build was circulating across the Web over the past few days.
You can download torrent from
HERE.
Following are the details of leaked
Windows 8 Build 7955 Milestone 2:
Build Name : Windows 8 Build 6.2.7955.0 Ultimate m2 (32-bit)
File Name : 7955.fbl_srv_wdacxml.110228-1930
ISO Size: 2.47GB (2,657,079,296 bytes)
ISO MD5: 40861A02CB14B0D2D7930910DB6CC6E4
P.S. I know it's outdated - like 4 days old, but somehow it was missed!
tried everything with AC3 and rebug 4.41. just black screen and vita disconnects. ps3 needs a hard reboot.
also NOT working, injustice and God of War...
Yep, we'll basically post anything that interests the male 18-34 (which really seems to be 14-40) demographic, with our primary focus on PS3 while including articles like this in the mix. Personally I am bored to death of "PSN down" and "PSN compromised" articles so I try to keep them to a minimum... most likely next week will come a slew more when it goes back online with a new PS3 Firmware update.
A curious part is "offtopic" articles like this generate 3+ pages of replies while actual PS3 homebrew articles often get only a handful... which makes me wonder if many here like myself enjoy reading about the updates but are too busy/can't be assed to try each out to comment on.
If you're able to get SSD functionality on XP, then yeah a small one would be good. No more defrag. Almost instant load of programs. I will say though SSD performance on XP might just be a fraction degraded with the older XP chipset drivers, but might not either.
But the point is saying Windows 7 is worse than XP because it uses more resources is nonsense. It uses more resources because it's a much more complicated OS with vastly improved support. Windows 7 is evolutionary more than revolutionary obviously hardware designed for XP is going to run it poorly and hardware designed for windows 7 is going to run XP faster, it's a 10 year old OS, same as it'll run win95 at lightning speeds.
That doesn't change the fact that right now Windows 7 is a much better supported OS with more features.
Though back on topic and from what I've seen from Windows 8 I wouldn't be suprised if the name changed before release as it looks more like it's designed to work in tandem with Win7 on tablets rather than replacing it on desktops. I might try get my hands on the build and give it a shot first though, it really depends on how invasive the touchscreen optimisations are on a desktop optimised version
Perhaps I am just stubborn and too fond of my XP system. I dunno, I just generally dislike how Win7 is setup, to me it's very much like vista, and for my needs I have never found anything, aside from the UI appearance, that I would want that XP doesn't give me. I personally prefer a simpler OS, and while I may have a old PC and an old OS, I bet my comp is just as fast as a higher end Win7 machine (my comp was originally designed for Vista --resource hog as well-- but I quickly got rid of that and installed XP with dual boot).
And you now have peaked my curiosity about an SSD drive, I may consider getting a lower GB one just to run my OS on, I will do more research. From a quick search it does seem XP can run an SSD with a few tweaks.
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?43460-Making-XP-pro-SSD-friendly
Since I have used Windows since version 3.0, I can say that Windows 7 is the least suckiest out of all of the Microsoft OSes.