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Re:Microsoft said to block ability to boot straight to deskt... by larsberg on Monday August 06, 2012 @06:11PM (#4347576)
What would be utterly hilarious is if the people internally at Microsoft were all using it with the "boot to desktop" setting turned on right up until RTM, ensuring they got no dogfooding of the Metro experience.

Because that's exactly what happened with Vista. Both the secure desktop switching and Aero desktop were turned off by default on both internal builds and those installed from the IT servers up until the final RTM version was released. And so they got no internal dogfood or complaints, other than from the testers...

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Re:Microsoft said to block ability to boot straight to deskt... by bntly on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @01:46PM (#4351239)
Sorry - Don't you mean "Windows 8 style UI experience" ?

... I Hope they are trying to lower expectations so we're all blown away by how good Windows 8 really is compared to all the bad press. Either that or their own koolaid has gotten much much sweeter.

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