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October 2nd, 2012, 11:47 GMT · By Bogdan Popa

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Bill Gates Thinks Windows 8 Is “A Very Big Deal”

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While Steve Ballmer thinks that Windows 8 will change the world just like Windows 95 did a long time ago, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is much more evasive and says that he’s simply pleased with the new operating system.

Bill Gates revealed that he’s already using Windows 8 and called the new operating system “a very exciting new product” that’s likely to be “a very big deal” for the Redmond-based technology giant.

What’s more, Gates admitted that Windows 8 indeed needs new hardware to run smoothly, but he praised all partners in the IT industry for their efforts.

"Hardware partners are doing great things to take advantage of the features," Gates was quoted as saying by NewsFactor.com.

Windows 8 will be officially unveiled on October 25 as part of a New York event when Microsoft is also expected to present the company’s Surface tablet running Windows RT.

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Comment #1 by: NM on 03 Oct 2012, 07:30 UTC reply to this comment

I've been running Windows 8 RTM on my spare desktop pc & it's the best windows version that I've ever used,

The Windows 8 UI (formerly called 'Metro UI') is very cool & it grows on you, it took me about a few minutes to get used to the new UI.

once that was done I could do my routine tasks significantly much faster on Windows 8 than on Windows 7 or XP. Kudos to MS for making this spectacular OS.

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