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Originally Posted by stonetools
Before you start celebrating, note these observations:
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This is a developer preview release. It's not the beta. Those apps aren't included because they don't matter. The goal for this release is not to get hundreds of millions of people running Windows 8. It's to get developers writing apps in preparation for the Beta launch that comes later. It's not intended for general use, and if you dismiss the OS because of missing functionality in a developer preview you're doing it extremely wrong.
This needs to come out now so that there will be awesome ereaders (and other apps, of course) when beta hits. It's like Apple's iOS developer previews that are not intended for general use, despite them being jailbroken and leaked. At least Microsoft isn't charging you for the privilege of getting access to the platform as a developer.