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New leaked Windows 8 screenshot

By | February 23, 2011, 4:43am PST

Is this a screenshot of the Windows Update screen from Windows 8?

Check out the leaked Windows 8 screenshots here!

The screenshot originaters from a notorious leak, who goes by the name of Zukona, who is well known for publishing reliable information on builds. This screenshot, which appears to show a new “restart if required” option in Windows Update is allegedly from the 6.2.7930.0.winmain_win8m2.110217-1825 build of Windows 8.

We don’t know an awful lot about Windows 8 yet. We had some leaked slides, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said is was “risky,” and Intel want to put it onto smartphones.

(Thanks to all for the tip, via WinRumors)

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or digital camera.

Adrian has authored/co-authored technical books on a variety of topics, ranging from programming to building and maintaining PCs. His most recent books include "Build the Ultimate Custom PC", "Beginning Programming" and "The PC Doctor's Fix It Yourself Guide". He has also written training manuals that have been used by a number of Fortune 500 companies.

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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
orjinkrem 2nd Nov
windows 8 bi harika ????karanlardan allah raz?? olsun
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
BondiGeek 23rd Feb 2011
How is that worthy of a blog post? I mean come on?
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You wouldn't think so ...
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Updated - 23rd Feb 2011
@BondiGeek ... but judging by how many people pointed me to this, yeah, people are interested in this stuff alright ...
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<a href="http://www.orjinkrem.net">orjin krem</a>
gaberdiye 23rd Feb 2011
How is that worthy of a blog post? I mean come on? orjin krem
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
paul2011 23rd Feb 2011
@gaberdiye
Interesting way to spam. Repeating already published comment... smart.
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Link bait!
General C# 23rd Feb 2011
The news just doesn't come with that punch anymore. Oh look "requires restart"... let me write a blog post.
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Actually it could be worse
Richard Flude 23rd Feb 2011
"restart if required" implies it may or may not restart. Only MS could think this is an improvement:-)
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
Tommy S. 23rd Feb 2011
ZOMG!!! A new checkbox!!!
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
Loverock Davidson 23rd Feb 2011
Its the start of many good things to come from Microsoft.
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dheady@... 23rd Feb 2011
@Loverock Davidson "A dream is a wish the heart makes...."
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
Rubberduck Rabidson 23rd Feb 2011
You can tell just from the screen shot that this is going to be brilliant, I'm sure it's going to cure my baldness.
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opcom 24th Feb 2011
@Rubberduck Rabidson

Darn! I was convinced it was going to detect approaching zombies!
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
Golem00 23rd Feb 2011
REAL leaked screenshot from Windows 8 (CONFIRMED!!!)

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/bsod.gif
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If this had been something by Apple
TKodiak 23rd Feb 2011
The fanboys would've shorted out their Ipads drooling and falling over themselves....
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
bmovie2 23rd Feb 2011
Same obnoxious, in-your-face metal/chrome frame!
It should be about what's inside the frame that matters!
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Be still
Monkeypox 23rd Feb 2011
my beating heart....
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
PedroRa 23rd Feb 2011
The part that I do find interesting is mentioning over and over again the article about Intel wanting to put it on phones.

This is really interesting because the Windows Kernel reduced to a minimum has minimal footprint (see MinWin) and the kernel itself is VERY advanced (although of course it's in everybody's (and blogger's) interest to trash MS).

I also don't see how different Android is from putting Linux on a phone. They took the Kernel (the minimal parts) and built an api propper for a phone.

Why shouldn't MS do this, especially if the Windows Kernel (the KERNEL) includes advanced things like Prioritized IO that I believe no other OS can do at this point.

Now if they want to put the Win32 API on phones that's a different (and crazy) thing. But a Windows Kernel with a propper phone API I believe could be an interesting thing to watch.

as for this current post, to be honest I also don't think this is worth a blog post, especially if you consider Vista's program of Betas that included all sorts of things (including WinFS) that were later abandoned.
So a new feature that is a checkbox... ok. that's certainly big compared to what WinFS and similar were for Vista.
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Dunno 'bout you guys but...
cym104 23rd Feb 2011
Honestly speaking, I was looking for this feature for quite a while.
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
Gabriel Hernandez 24th Feb 2011
Hopefully, Windows 8 will have a tablet mode, so it can have a tablet touch skin on top of the OS so it can be used in hybrid notebooks or tablets. Hopefully Windows 8 will support Thunderbolt technology and 24 bit audio drivers too! I wish Windows 8 won't be used in smartphones, WP7 is a great OS for that type of devices.
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
FLACGuy 25th Feb 2011
So W8 is just another hotfix for W7???
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RE: New leaked Windows 8 screenshot
orjinkrem 2nd Nov
windows 8 bi harika ????karanlardan allah raz?? olsun

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