Microsoft has started opening up more and more on the next major iteration of Windows, but despite all the information made public on the official blog for the development efforts around the operating system, the company still has to reveal details about how Windows 8 will “change everything.”
The official
BUILD Windows website set up for the upcoming Windows 8-centric event that replaced the Professional Developers Conference is still largely unchanged from when it launched.
This even though Microsoft will kick off the registration process in just two weeks. Only one day after it will open registration, on September 13th, some of the company’s top executives will take the stage for the opening keynote address.
There’s no telling exactly who, since there’s no official info from the software giant on what exactly will happen at BUILD.
The conference was sold out just on the promise that participants will get the first taste of Windows 8, and nothing more beyond that. 14 days ahead of the event, with the exception of some Microsoft employees that revealed on their own websites / blogs that they’ll talk at BUILD, there are still no sessions detailed on the Agenda page of the conference’s site.
Judging from just how fast BUILD sold out, it’s clear that the Redmond company’s communication strategy is working. Doses of Windows 8 details have been very small and somewhat infrequent, but sufficiently consistent to get people hooked.
Windows 8 info aside, users are expecting Microsoft to dish out more than just information on the next version of the Windows client, namely the first preview of the platform.
The company has set nothing about sharing a pre-release Build of Windows 8 at BUILD, but it did promise that it won’t keep such a thing secret. If an early development milestone of Windows 8 will be shared, BUILD participants are most likely the first in line to get it.
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