Looks like Nintendo didn't want to wait for its proper E3 press conference to spill some Wii U details early -- it just used its preview event to show the finished version of the Wii U controller, called the Gamepad, as well as a TV remote app.

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Microsoft has just posted the finished version of its suit-and-tie OS for immediate sale in download form.

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Next month, the company will let the masses download and test a not-quite-finished version of Windows 8, which Ballmer has called the most important product in company history.

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While both students and teacher work with the same ingredients, no one finished version of mee goreng tastes quite like another.

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We can measure Benedetto da Maiano's preparatory terra-cotta bust of the tough-minded Florentine banker Filippo Strozzi against the finished marble version (both 1475).

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The New York version finished its third season last month, pulling in an average of nearly 2 million viewers.

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