Microsoft promised we’d see the Windows 8 Consumer preview before the end of February, and they’re holding true to the word. The company has arranged a small event in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress to unveil the latest version of the upcoming OS on February 29, the very last day of the month (during a leap year, no less).
Timmahh
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:33 AMYesss, Goodbye Win 7, hello Win 8. Did the same when 7 went to “Consumer preview” Never looked back!
wsDK_II
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 11:54 AMsame here
Sicarius123
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:41 AMDamnit, I need a touch screen, stat!
StevoTheDevo
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:58 AMIs there much in the way of consumer level touchscreen monitors at this stage?
Antipodean
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:10 AMYeah, I checked around yesterday to see what’s available. Found a few 23/24″ models for between three and four hundred, but they were all in the US. Ozzy ones are a tad light on the ground, and pretty expensive. Amazon has some but no doubt they won’t ship overseas!
StevoTheDevo
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:45 AMI also had a look after posting, seems there is an Acer T231H and a Dell ST2220T in that $3-400 range.and available here.
They both seem to have optical touch systems, not Capacitive or Resistive
Antipodean
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 11:02 AMHmm, The Acer is getting a bit old and the Dell a bit too small for my taste, plus the specs aren’t all that good either. Hopefully now that W8 is on the way, they’ll start to make a bit more of a splash in Oz. Until then, I’ll just turn Metro off. :)
jason
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:59 PMI’ve got a 24inch dell (cant remember the model # though)
it works brilliantly with win 8 DP very much looking forward to the CP
MotorMouth
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:53 AMYee-ha! I can’t wait to see how much this speeds up my machine. I couldn’t care less about touch.
warcroft
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:08 AMFuture is now.
BlipittyBlopitty
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:09 PMI’m getting all wet just thinking about Win 8.