Microsoft confirmed Win8 Beta changed its name to Consumer Preview

  

In the screenshots of several recently released Windows 8 Beta branch versions, you can see that Windows 8 Beta has been renamed to "Consumer Preview" (Consumer Preview) ), which also corresponds to the previously released Developer Preview. Previously, we were not sure whether this was a tentative Beta code for Microsoft to facilitate internal staff testing, or whether Windows 8 Beta would be released as a consumer preview.


Today, Microsoft confirmed that when Windows 8 Beta will be released Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Consumer Preview) identity appear.

Steven Sinofsky, director of Windows, announced that the beta version of Windows 8 for x86/64 and mdash;— Windows Consumer Preview will be available for public download at the end of February. The next milestone version of Windows 8 (also known as Windows 8 Consumer Preview) will support multiple languages ​​and can be downloaded by anyone. "Sinofsky is not willing to disclose the language version of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, but it can be learned from the leaked Windows 8 Beta branch screenshot that the first batch of Windows 8 Consumer Preview will contain five. Language versions: English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese.



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