Windows 8 Consumer Preview: Two days to go to Public Beta

We are running out: there are now just over 48 hours to mature debut of the first beta of Windows 8. The launch will take place as noted during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in the day of 29 February at 3pm Italian time and over the OS will also be made ​​public beta of Windows Server and Visual Studio 8 11.

The latest rumors seem to confirm the build 8250 beta as a candidate for this might be already a fairly mature and stable operating system, as happened for the first beta of Windows 7.

To test the new Windows will be a key (rare) touch device with x86, just because any relatively new computer - the requirements are even lower than Windows 7, it runs smoothly even on low Atom.

Indeed it will be interesting to see just how will the new interface Metro (here a gallery of images of a few weeks ago) with the classical control systems of mouse and keyboard available for 99.9% of PCs around the globe, to finally understand - as they say - "what kind of death we shall die."