This may be true, in fact I'm not surprised if a new build is released in 3 days time, but I doubt it will be the official release. This has turned into a small game of Chinese whispers, one website has said something (must remain nameless, the info was never meant to be leaked) and others have missed some important information from it. The release has been said to be on ideas.live.com, suggesting a public beta of 8.1, this is likely according to Microsoft MVP Jonathan Kay:
If it's releasing on ideas.live.com, it's just going into public beta, not a release.
Considering this is the "vista version" and Vista will be available to some customers less than a month from now, this doesn't surprise me.
His idea seems logical. Another suggestion this will be a public beta and not an official release comes from this post just before Jonathan Kay's by MenthiX:
The managed 8.1 testers got a newsletter from Microsoft last Monday saying that there will at least be 2 more beta builds (a normal build and one released through automatic update). Neither of these two are released yet, so public release on the 30th is extremely unlikely.
We have received no official word of a public beta yet from Microsoft, just rumours from other sources. Although a public beta seems very likely, don't be fooled into think this is an official release. As for the news, here is what is expected to be in the update:
- New design of contacts, posting of the display pictures.
- Improved safety (most likely from viruses).
- Improved authentication (may be that text value of storing a password has been fixed?)
- Emoticon improvements
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