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The slow, relentless trek towards the release of Windows 8 continues. The Developer Preview released several months back was nifty, but a bit rough around the edges — as you would expect from an early build created for development use. Now, after months of rumors, tidbits and news about features that weren’t included in the Developer Preview, you’ll finally get a chance to try many of them out for yourself. Today, Microsoft unveiled the more polished and user friendly Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

Here are links to the standard Windows 8 Consumer Preview setup files and another page that offers Windows 8 CP ISO images. The images are fairly big — 2.5GB for the 32-bit version and 3.3GB for the 64-bit version — so expect to be downloading for a while if you have a slower connection.  The hardware requirements are as lax as Windows 7′s. From the big ol’ FAQ Microsoft released for the Consumer Preview:

• Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
• RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
• Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device or higher
• To use touch, you need a tablet or a monitor that supports multitouch.
• To access the Windows Store and to download and run apps, you need an active Internet connection and a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768.
• To snap apps, you need a screen resolution of at least 1366 x 768.

We haven’t had a chance to play around with the Consumer Preview too much yet (stupid work!) but hey, let’s make this a group effort: if you go hands-on with the latest flavor of Windows 8, share your impressions with your fellow geeks in the comments below.

Source: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/windows_8_consumer_preview_goes_live

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Verizon Wireless has never been one to shy away from a dollar or two. (See: the company’s aborted attempt to charge online bill payers a $2 “convenience fee.”) Don’t be too quick to judge the company, though; it looks to be taking a turn for the consumer friendly with new family data plans. Rumors about the plans have been swirling for a while, but now we have some official semi-details about the launch window for the wallet-friendly data packages.

Notice we said “launch window,” not “launch date.” That’s because it isn’t going to be a simple flip of the switch migration. “It?s important to realize that the day we launch this account billing, everybody won?t be migrating to the account billing day one,” TechCrunch reports Verizon CFO Fran Shammo as saying at an investor meeting. “This is going to be a long-term migration into where we want to get data plan sharing.”

That being said, Shammo says the new family plans should start rolling out in the middle of the year. Verizon hopes to spur 4G adoption with the new packages.

So it may be coming later, but hey, at least it’s coming. With the proliferation of Wi-Fi, it’s easier than ever to stay off the mobile data networks, which makes Verizon’s current $30/mo. per smartphone required data plans, well, suck even harder. My family’s two phones typically use less than 1GB of mobile data every month and we’re still stuck with a $60 data bill for the separate lines. Halving that will be awesome.

Source: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/verizon_family_data_plans_launching_summer-ish

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Verizon Wireless has never been one to shy away from a dollar or two. (See: the company’s aborted attempt to charge online bill payers a $2 “convenience fee.”) Don’t be too quick to judge the company, though; it looks to be taking a turn for the consumer friendly with new family data plans. Rumors about the plans have been swirling for a while, but now we have some official semi-details about the launch window for the wallet-friendly data packages.

Notice we said “launch window,” not “launch date.” That’s because it isn’t going to be a simple flip of the switch migration. “It?s important to realize that the day we launch this account billing, everybody won?t be migrating to the account billing day one,” TechCrunch reports Verizon CFO Fran Shammo as saying at an investor meeting. “This is going to be a long-term migration into where we want to get data plan sharing.”

That being said, Shammo says the new family plans should start rolling out in the middle of the year. Verizon hopes to spur 4G adoption with the new packages.

So it may be coming later, but hey, at least it’s coming. With the proliferation of Wi-Fi, it’s easier than ever to stay off the mobile data networks, which makes Verizon’s current $30/mo. per smartphone required data plans, well, suck even harder. My family’s two phones typically use less than 1GB of mobile data every month and we’re still stuck with a $60 data bill for the separate lines. Halving that will be awesome.

Source: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/verizon_family_data_plans_launching_summer-ish

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