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I'm guessing we are talking May 17th US time. Can't find it on the O'Reilly site yet?

I'm using the Windows 8 CP on both my home desktop and my Samsung Series 7 Slate.As an operating system, it's pretty solid and the keyboard/mouse combination works very well for me, but then again I've been using PC's since the days when they came with CP/M as well as DOS.

The apps that are available, or should I say 'App Previews' are the weak link. Very few of them are actually functional enough to use properly. The only Metro app that I use regular is IE10.

From a development stand point, I've built a few prototype applications and have done since the original developer preview. It is a frustrating experience, given the lack of any real decent samples or of any developer documentation. WinRT/XAML is just different enough from WPF/XAML to be incredibly frustrating. Trying to work out which of the new controls is best for certain types of UX and what properties you actually need to set is very annoying. Couple that with the rather bland Visual Studio 11, it's not always a lot of fun to write code on Windows 8.

The lack of support for things like Xbox Live and other apps in the UK is also annoying. Not giving me a chance to give it a real; consumer test. I'm hoping to see more frequent app updates over the next month or so.

The OS itself works and does the job well, it's just the applications currently available that leave a bad taste in my mouth.

Not got it working. Had to resort to locally copying files from my NAS onto my hard-drive to test Windows 8 libraries. Hopefully it'll be fixed before the final release.

With tracking protection on, which is my default mode for browsing. The site's display is totally messed up.

@magicalclick: most of these issues seem to be app related and hopefully will be addressed via the expected updates.

I agree with some of the Mail Horrors. I hooked my tablet up to the work's Exchange server, but had to change my password today and can't for the life of me figure out how to go in and update the password on my tablet.

My main issue at the minute is the lack of Xbox Live support in the UK and the poor support for Pictures stored on my Western Digital MyBook NAS.

Other than that, I'm enjoying the new experience, but hope for frequent app updates as some of them like People and Messaging seem a little half-baked.

I'd have hoped it would be an OS level feature and not something that would need baking into every app. Still early days, hopefully this will be addressed in an update soon.

I'll be installing it onto my Win 7 partition tonight. I'll let you know how I get on.

Installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my laptop, slate and desktop PC. So far, enjoying the experience on all three devices. Much slicker than the developer preview. Disappointed by the lack of Xbox Live support in the UK. Very annoying. Hope that comes soon. What Apps there are, are pretty good. Although I think the UI for the people hub needs some more work. All in all, it's a good release by Microsoft, hopefully they'll keep the apps and updates coming fairly fast over the next few weeks.

Another vote for the Samsung Series 7 Slate, been running the preview on it since Jan and love it. Bit expensive and a little too heavy, but is great for testing touch scenarios in apps as well as debugging through Visual Studio.

Ugh. underscores as parameter prefixes. never seen that before. ugly as sin.

Might I suggest you look at DateTime and TimeSpan classes as an alternative.

I'd also watch out for those semi-colons on the end of if statements