[tomkat]

yup, great timing .. kinda makes ya wonder 'why bother' ?

[Calvin Locke]

[4 months left]...why bother' [after all those years]?

I'm guessing that they were about to be outed in some fashion, and the last thing MS needs is more bad PR baggage as they re-brand the next batch of "fixes to it's FAD useability disasters" of W8 as a brand new W9.