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Last week I wrote about Microsoft's new Building Windows 8 blog. The first installment, from Windows head honcho Steve Sinofsky, ran 1,247 words and told us, basically, absolutely nothing about Windows 8. The two posts that followed didn't offer much more.

The second post expounds on Windows 8 and USB 3.0. The third post, out Tuesday, reveals Windows 8's reengineered approach to copying files as it relates to dialog boxes.

This build is 100% locked, SLC or SHSXS hack don't work.

Look like a Windows 7 with a timebomb.

FBL_EEAP = WinMain Branch (just Microsoft have created a new FBL branch for OEM after 7989 leak...)

The build 8064 is a Milestone 3 Escrow Build

Anyway, this build contain:

A new wallpaper (5th generation)
A new BSOD (2nd generation) (back to blue with a smiley : ( )
A new bootscreen (2nd generation) (betta fish is gone)
A new installprep and WinPE look. (5th generation)
Internet Explorer 10 Developer Preview (pre release version) (with Internet Explorer 10 splashscreen)
A new colored "Windows" splashscreen during installprep loading file.
Immersive Remote Desktop (old)
Immersive Control Panel (old)
WinStore (old)
Windows 7 wallpaper deleted
New WiFi/Ethernet icons (old)
New Touch Keyboard icon
New genuine center (old)
Windows DVD Maker gone
Windows Media Center gone
New User avatar
New Advanced Security Setting tab (old)

OLD = Present in 80xx build

With the latest Windows 8 build (8064) that has been delivered to Intel, it's clear that the company is taking strides to make sure that its upcoming OS isn't quite so easy to pirate.

For starters, the generic volume license keys that were so easily exploited during the early days of Windows 7 leaks will no longer be an option for pirates.

Product keys also won't be shipped in the prodkey.txt file included in the build packages. Instead, installers will need to retrieve a unique key from a Microsoft web page.

There's also a good possibility that the recently-surfaced fast booting patent could come into play as well. If Microsoft does indeed have designs on using a remote server to push OS code to systems at boot time, that code would be a very clever place to embed activation-related programming. Even if a crack was discovered, it would be neatly undone during a subsequent start-up sequence — similar to the way Microsoft's now-idle Windows Steady State could turn back the clock on an entire Windows installation after rebooting.

For the first time in fifteen or more years, Redmond faces a genuine challenge to its Windows desktop monopoly. The threat isn't coming from Linux or from Mac OS X or from any other operating system. It's coming from a whole new computing concept: the "post-PC." The worry is that upstart tablets threaten to drive the computer out of the home, taking the Windows operating system with it.
It's not just Microsoft that's facing a tumultuous revolution, of course—the PC as a platform, as a concept, is equally under attack. But the biggest loser from this new world order will surely be Microsoft. Hardware makers can just switch to making new hardware, but Microsoft needs that hardware to run Microsoft software, and the company has been consistently unable to crack the tablet market.
Microsoft is no newcomer to the tablet market; in fact, the company has been in the tablet market longer than almost anyone else. But success in this market has been hard to come by. Microsoft's hope, the PC's great hope, is Windows 8. With Windows 8, Microsoft needs to build not just a Windows that PC users want to use; it needs to build a Windows that can succeed in the post-PC world