Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Developer Preview
Get your hands on Windows 8 right now!
UPDATE: It's available for download now!
Windows 8 is the star at the Microsoft Build event going on right now, but you don't have to be there to get your hands on this next version of the operating system.
Microsoft will be releasing a Developer Preview for download later tonight. Windows president writes in a blog post:
You probably want to try out the preview release—and you can. Starting later tonight you can download the Windows 8 Developer Preview. This includes a 64-bit (x64) build with development tools to build apps, and a 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) build without development tools. The releases also include a suite of sample applications (please note these are merely illustrations of potential apps, not apps that we intend to ship with Windows 8). The ISOs are linked to from http://dev.windows.com.
Upgrade from Windows 7 installation is not supported for pre-release code; only clean installs are supported. Reminder: this is a developer preview release and is not meant for production. It is not a beta release. We will be updating the release with various quality updates and drivers over the coming weeks/months just to exercise our overall update and telemetry mechanisms.
Stay tuned for more on Windows 8.
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As of now (2:30PDT) the site is still not available. However I'd be stoked if regulars (non-devs) can download this too.
Check the Winrumors site and see some gorgeous videos. Tom is rather slow nowadays in picking relevant news pieces.
I wonder how long it'l take us all to destroy their servers =/
i checked the winrumors site and it said it will not be available till 8:00 PST
Can non-devs still D/L this?
Can non-devs still D/L this?
Sure. It's called BitTorrent.
I wonder if this means they will stick with the Win8 name. I know they had said it was just a working title with a real name to come later, but I hope not
Post a link when someone haz.
Can non-devs still D/L this?
to answer your question http://twitter.com/#!/windevs
0x6d617361 Masahiro David
@windevs Can non developers download Windows 8 Developer Preview ?
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@0x6d617361 Yes, everybody can download it.
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This should be interesting. I'll definitely be checking this out, one way or another.
I just got a $829.99 iPad2 for only $103.37 and my mom got a $1499.99 HDTV for only $251.92, they are both coming with USPS tomorrow. I would be an id iot .......
You are a spammer, and an idiotic one at that. You got that part right.
DOWNLOADS ARE GO!
You are a spammer, and an idiotic one at that. You got that part right.
you talk to bots now?
Download link is online now for me (@5:16PDT). Get yours now!
DOWNLOADS ARE GO!
At 1st I thought you were joking, but the links are indeed live. Start your engines!
What was that special edge to edge or something touchscreen hardware requirement again?
At 1st I thought you were joking, but the links are indeed live. Start your engines!
nope
I really not much of a joking person in articles, you have to find me joking around in the forums
Servers are getting hammered, as expected. 8.5 hours to go.
Servers are getting hammered, as expected. 8.5 hours to go.
hmmm currently near my max internet speed (about 4 to 4.5mb/s on a 5 mb/s connection) downloading the x64 with Dev tools (already got 1.7 GB done of 4.8 and only an hour to go according to chrome)... which ISO you downloading?
Got my copy before it choked out or was pulled, etc...
nope I was following the twitter tweets on the microsoft-dev and as soon as i saw them say they were live and checked it my self, i posted that comment just before downloading. I really not much of a joking person in articles, you have to find me joking around in the forums
This is true, he's pretty funny on the forums
Crap, 1 day left. Currently it's at 23ish kb/s, which is unusual. I've seen it max out at about 300 before, but not today apparently.
Crap, 1 day left. Currently it's at 23ish kb/s, which is unusual. I've seen it max out at about 300 before, but not today apparently.
Hmmmm.... maybe i got on the bandwagon so early that i got a lot of bandwidth reserve just for me.
or im downloading the largest of the 3 iso's and nobody wants them.
1/2 way done!
Edit:
Now about 2/3 done. (3.1GB of 4.8)
Well I opted to d/l it on our downstairs comp, which is wired. Much better speeds, had about 3 hours left last time I checked!
WOOT done!
although it's late. So i'll try messing around with it tomarrow
I just finished downloading it. It took about an hour. I am wondering about drivers for win8.
well took 20 minites to download for me but unfortunately it won't install on the latest version of vmware. the message i receive is vcpu-0:NOT_IMPLEMENTED. i heard it works with virtual box though
Just downloaded the 32bit and tried on MS virtual PC. It says HAL error
When was the last time Apple did this? One of the biggest reasons i love windows (and respect linux)...not going to download it, because i wont be able to use it lol. Btw it just hit me, is the tiny odd looking start menu for this dev version only?
Why don`t they already drop 32 Bit ? ... every new PC out there has at least 4 GB of ram .. that`s 1 GB more than 32 bit can handle ...not to count all other improvements. So sad we have 64 bit for so long yet we cannot detach from the 32 bit 1995 era.