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Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download
MrSeb writes "Microsoft has announced the immediate availability of Windows 8 Release Preview. Unfortunately there isn't a Consumer Preview > Release Preview upgrade path — you'll have to format and perform a clean installation. After downloading the ISO, simply burn Windows 8 RP onto a USB stick or DVD, reboot, and follow the (exceedingly quick and easy) installer. Alternatively, if you don't want to format a partition, ExtremeTech has a guide on virtualizing Windows 8 with VirtualBox. After a lot of fluster on the Building Windows 8 blog, the Release Preview is actually surprisingly similar to the Consumer Preview. Despite being promised a new, flat, Desktop/Explorer UI, Aero is still the default theme in Windows 8 RP. The tutorial that will introduce new users to the brave new Start buttonless Windows 8 world is also missing. Major features that did make the cut are improved multi-monitor support — it's now easier to hit the hot corners on a multi-monitor setup, and Metro apps can be moved between displays — and the Metro version of IE10 now has a built-in Flash plug-in. There will be no further pre-releases of Windows 8: the next build will be the RTM."
Last preview I downloaded was pretty miserable, is it even remotely useable yet?
If they quit offering Windows 7 when Windows 8 comes out then it may just end up being the year that Linux takes over the desktop market.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
I'm going to buy 10 retail copies of Windows 7 so that I'll have plenty for any future needs.
That'll show Microsoft they can't jerk me around.
Windows 8 : The final triumph of Steve Jobs.
I mean, seriously? Starting stuff from the stupid Start screen?
It was so much better back in the day when you started stuff from the shutdown menu.
yeah you tell em...
"microsoft, you're a bunch of assholes... now let me pay you a heap of money to prove to myself that you're a bunch of assholes!"
later, after purchasing several copies of win7...
"hehehe... suckers"
Tomorrows sunrise will be at 5:42am.
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the exec meeting where they came up with the idea of turning Microsoft's monopoly desktop product into a cell phone.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
(I hadn't gotten around to testing out the CP I downloaded a while back).
Burn in hell, paedophile!
OMFSM! HOW DID YOU GET THAT KEY!?!?
oh, right http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso
Yeah, they sure did go out n their own with Zune. And with the WinPhone7. And with Windows, itself. Boy! That Window imaging model introduced with Vista, what a brilliant departure from Quartz!
I think the use of touch and gestures that was an original in MS labs really schooled Apple on how to make a human interface work - after years of "struggling in the dark" over at Infinite Loop.
Microsoft's pioneering work on App stores is also not to be overlooked.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
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