ZDNet: Windows 8 doesn’t officially go on sale until October 26, but at least one high-volume retailer has jumped the gun on PC sales.
Over the weekend, HSN.com, the online edition of the Home Shopping Network, offered a special on two new Gateway notebook PCs with Windows 8 preinstalled. A search turned up a total of 5 Acer and Gateway machines (Gateway is a division of Acer) available for sale today, with Windows 8 installed. A customer service representative confirmed that all five models are in stock and will ship immediately when ordered.
And, for once, some of what it can do looks genuinely useful.
The blog post reads, “We’re introducing a new WhatsApp app for Windows that loads faster and is built with an interface similar to the app's mobile version.”
Since the middle of February, customers of AMD graphics cards have been reporting situations in which Windows installations were entirely bricked after installing new drivers.
...great
yawn, Windows is so passé
They f*d up with Vista but still pushed it on the market, I went looking for something else and it will take a long time for me to return to the MS brand.
They have ruined Windows and are now trying to destroy Hotmail with an unpleasant UI that can trigger migraines.Wonder who is developing the Microsoft UIs.
Buy new win8 laptop install Windows 7.
cake & eat