Microsoft to Hold Windows 8 Consumer Preview Event on February 29

Microsoft told me today that it will hold a Windows 8 Consumer Preview event on February 29, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Not coincidentally, this event is timed to correspond with Mobile World Congress, which has been an important event for Windows Phone for the past few years.

No word yet on whether there will be a US event as well.

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Waethorn
on Feb 8, 2012
hmm...I just noticed something a bit odd about this shot. Microsoft talks about grid systems for presentational layouts. The tile spacing is uniform here, but the padding isn't. That seems unusual to me. You could call it out as the larger tile not having the same padding as the smaller ones, but even between the two smallest ones, the padding isn't the same.
incubusjax
on Feb 8, 2012
Yes, but you must keep in mind that all the marketing people were just canned, so these folks are all temps and don't do uniform. =)
luis3007
on Feb 8, 2012
MS doesn't care about desktop users...why should they? Any new PC sold will come with Windows 8 by default, whether you like it or not. OTOH the mobile market is heavily contested, so that is where their research and money is going!!
LemonSaucy
on Feb 9, 2012
It the Desktop 'tupid! LOL, I just don't see whipping away my Desktop on me just because I want to open notepad. And what if I start some Metroseexual app by mistake? Now I got to close it, go back to the Metroseexual "window", slide around until I find the bloody Desktop icon, the get get back to the Desktop, whoops I forgot I need that app to work along side my working application, back to the corner where Start is supposed to me, wiggle my mouse around until a tiny Metroseexual "Start" shows up, click, then there goes my Desktop and I root and slide around the Mertoseexual for an app that I hope won't leave me Metroseexualed, finally got it, then back to the Desktop .. and this several times a day and depending on my work maybe several times an hour. Couldn't Microsoft have just let a Desktop be a Desktop and Metroseexual be a Metroseexual? I know its very fashion statement to be Metroseexual, but not everyone wants to be nor have it in their face all the time.

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