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I want to know window 8 is available in market or is not launched yet ?

Reply to alexpjhone

Not for commercial release and no public beta (coming Feb 2012). Only developer preview for now.

Message edited by Pyree on 12-29-2011 at 04:44:31 PM

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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/M [...] 14195.html

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Reply to Pyree

thanks for quick reply.

Reply to alexpjhone

The Windows developer center is now live and Windows 8 available to .... markets you can download here http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8 [...] o-download

Message edited by Pyree on 12-30-2011 at 09:07:00 AM

Reply to lizalee

It is still developer review, not a finished product. Do not use this as your primary OS.

For downloading the DP, use official link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/br229518

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Reply to Pyree

i used the developer preview as main os on my laptop for 4 months now and it does quite fine. havent had any major problem just minorly annoying quirks. and havent tried playing any games on it.

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Reply to farrengottu

windows 8 is in the market and if you want to you can check this video out so if you don't think it looks good you don't have to download it-->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwXaFpmE3Nw

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Reply to athornfam2

athornfam2 wrote :

windows 8 is in the market and if you want to you can check this video out so if you don't think it looks good you don't have to download it-->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwXaFpmE3Nw

Windows8 is not in the market. Windows8 is still in alpha testing.... The earliest expected beta isn't until February. The Windows 8 Developer Preview is intended for, as the name suggests, developers. It's not intended for end-users in any way.

Reply to sykozis

farrengottu wrote :

i used the developer preview as main os on my laptop for 4 months now and it does quite fine. havent had any major problem just minorly annoying quirks. and havent tried playing any games on it.

Thats your risk that you are apparently willing to take, it should not be used for production purposes, you might get lucky you might not, if not the answer will be a shrug of the shoulders and a DUH

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Reply to 13thmonkey

13thmonkey wrote :

Thats your risk that you are apparently willing to take, it should not be used for production purposes, you might get lucky you might not, if not the answer will be a shrug of the shoulders and a DUH

Why are you insisting that it's so bad to use? It is a DEVELOPER version, it's purpose is to allow developers early access to Windows 8 to develop apps, already. If that is not a production purpose in it's own, then what? :sarcastic:

Besides what's the risk of it anyway. You won't hurt your system, it might not run some things or not at all or everything just fine. That's all.

Reply to whatsthatnoise

I was replying to farrengotu who is using it as his main OS. There was for instance no transition path from public beta win7 to full win7, they will in all likelyhood be no path from dev > beta > bublic beta > retail win8.
there may be undiscovered bugs, this is significantly more likely than in a retail version (and think of how many of those there are).
I was saying its your risk to use it as primary OS, and it is.

Reply to 13thmonkey

Well it all depends on what you want to do with it. You're probably right about it not being a good choice for transition on a working platform in the long run.