TNW: At its BUILD event last September, Microsoft presented an operating system that it claimed would boot faster than its predecessors, and consume less memory. Back then, only Windows 8′s developer preview was made available. A consumer preview followed. Currently, Windows 8′s public build is its ‘release preview.’
The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.
Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.
In the earliest days of the Surface, it was hard to shake the notion that the line was something of a reference design for Windows 8.
