Get the Windows 8 Developer Preview - Today!
Summary: Want to check out Windows 8? You'll be able to tonight!
Microsoft is making the the Windows 8 developer preview available to everyone later today.
That's right - Microsoft is making the 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Windows 8, both with and without development tools, available for download from 8PM PT today.
The ISOs will be available from: http://dev.windows.com/
Some big caveats:
- This is a developer preview, not a beta, so it's not finished, not feature-complete and is buggy.
- Only clean installs are supported, no upgrades.
- No ARM version available.
Why is Microsoft doing this? Two reasons:
- It was going to be leaked anyway.
- Huge PR!
[UPDATE: No registration or product key will be required.]
So, who's going to be checking it out?
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Freakin awesome
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Kudos to the Microsoft team to achieve this, it is phenomenal
If you wish to view a YouTube video of Win 8 on the Dev Tablet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59mP3R4I8wU&feature=player_embedded
Good Stuff being shown but as you might suspect at this stage of development, the Win 8 tablet hardware touch sensitive screen perhaps hinders some fluidity of Win 8 gestures.
However .. all in all .. I was impressed.
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So it's no different than any other version of Windows? ;-)
Seriously, I'm a defector to Linux and I'M getting excited about Windows 8 and have even been telling friends and family that use Windows that they really have to upgrade to Windows 8 when it arrives. I've explained in more detail in another ZDNet article, but Windows 8 seems to be looking to Linux for a lot of its new features and really feels like an answer to desktop Linux, which is a good thing.
Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7.5, I think all those who have been bad-mouthing Microsoft and dismissing them as the past rather than the future are going to be in for quite a surprise. :-)
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Isos now available.
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-Sent from my Windows 8 VM.
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I know this is just a developer pre-release, but I hope there is a way to disable Metro on the desktop in the future. :(
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Looks like "yes" and "no"
More info is on another ZDNet blog:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-windows-8-heres-what-we-now-know-and-dont/10608?tag=nl.e019
"Yes": Microsoft is apparently, at least for this build release, specifying Metro as the *only* UI, with the "classical" desktop being treated as an app. Which would mean that, every time you boot up, you get a smartphone-looking interface.
"No": You *can* access the "classical" desktop by selecting that "app". That sounds like, once the app is open, you'll get a Windows experience more akin to prior versions.