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Old August 8, 2012, 11:01 AM
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Microsoft has been unable to ‘plug the leaks’ recently at its Windows division: recently the release to manufacturing version of Windows 8 emerged online, and now samples of the new OS’ box art have hit the blogosphere.

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Old August 8, 2012, 01:06 PM
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Wow, that's fairly awful...
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Wow, that's fairly awful...
like everything with Metro Crap ( Windows 8 and Windows 2012 server )
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Wow, that's fairly awful...
What the hell am I suppose to be even looking at? They have all this money for marketing and they came up with that...
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Regardless, all the best marketing and packaging in the world won't do anything when you're packing cow dung.
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Apple doesn't pretty well with their products to get millions to buy into them and refresh them a lot more then any other brand/company.
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I don't mind the look of it...

It goes with the whole Metro theme.
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Misleading advertising along with the name. Metro is designed to take the window out of windows completely.... :)
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Wow, is it just me or does this look like CorelDraw fron the 90's?
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That design looks terrible, it looks like a 3 year old made that.
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