Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download 363
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."
Does it still suck? (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Linux on the desktop, now? (Score:5, Funny)
That'll show Microsoft they can't jerk me around.
Re:Does it still suck? (Score:5, Funny)
you can still buy vista
Oh god why? Can't they make that against the law or something?
Re:Posting with it now... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:is any desktop user going to be upgrading? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Linux on the desktop, now? (Score:1, Funny)
"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"
And In A Non Related News Event (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:What? (Score:4, Funny)
(I hadn't gotten around to testing out the CP I downloaded a while back).
Burn in hell, paedophile!
Re:IF YOU WANT TO PIRATE A COPY (Score:4, Funny)
OMFSM! HOW DID YOU GET THAT KEY!?!?
oh, right http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso [microsoft.com]
Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:IF YOU WANT TO PIRATE A COPY (Score:5, Funny)
IF YOU WANT TO PIRATE A COPY
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