Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Developer Preview

UPDATE: It's available for download now!

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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  • eddieroolz
    As of now (2:30PDT) the site is still not available. However I'd be stoked if regulars (non-devs) can download this too.
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  • Check the Winrumors site and see some gorgeous videos. Tom is rather slow nowadays in picking relevant news pieces.
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  • tupz
    I wonder how long it'l take us all to destroy their servers =/
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  • captaincharisma
    i checked the winrumors site and it said it will not be available till 8:00 PST
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  • kilo_17
    Can non-devs still D/L this?
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  • Thunderfox
    kilo_17Can non-devs still D/L this?Sure. It's called BitTorrent.
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  • CaedenV
    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
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  • cybr
    Post a link when someone haz. :)
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  • warmon6
    kilo_17Can 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 ?
    9 minutes ago
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    @windevs
    Windows Developers
    @0x6d617361 Yes, everybody can download it.
    7 minutes ago via HootSuite
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  • Darkerson
    This should be interesting. I'll definitely be checking this out, one way or another.
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