Windows 8 Developer Preview

[Momerath]

Has been released by Microsoft. It includes64-bit Windows Developer Preview
Windows SDK for Metro style apps
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview
Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview
28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app

You can download it here . I'm about to install it and see what's new in VS 2011 (and hopefully C# :))

[ddanbe]

THanks for the info Momerath, but if there were any upgrades to C#, would they not have mentioned it separately?

[__avd]

There are dozens of announcements and countless features on windows 8 developer preview.

1. Keynote .
2. Features of Windows : Metro UI.
3. Windows 8 features .
4. Windows 8 Developer Preview Hands-on: Inside All the New Features

PS: I'm planning to download and install - Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64).

[pseudorandom21]

Will it run on VMware?

[pseudorandom21]

Doesn't work for me on VMware :(

I haven't tried these yet but they may work:
http://www.windows7hacker.com/?p=4877
http://www.mywindowsclub.com/resources/5081-Install-Windows-VMWare-Workstation.aspx

[skatamatic]

I heard that they are only releasing a 32-bit dev preview, and the 64-bit one comes with no development tools.

[Teme64]

Skatamatic, 64-bit version has development tools and 32-bit version doesn't.

Pseudorandom21, no, it doesn't even install on VMware VM. The problem is with Win8 HAL.

[__avd]

Guys! Here is an interesting blog post by Scott Hanselman on <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/NewToolsAndNewContentASPNETVisualStudio11WebAndNET45DeveloperPreviewWithCommentary.aspx">New Tools and New Content - ASP.NET, Visual Studio 11 Web and .NET 4.5 Developer Preview (with commentary)</a>

[Momerath]

If you just want Visual Studio, you can find it here

[Int13H]

You should have VMWare 8 (Not 7 ! ) to install windows 8
and remove the floppy disk from VM to bypasses product key

[charlybones]

Try it on VirtualBox (Oracle's VM Sw.)

Cheers.

[Pjieter]

I'm running it on VirtualBox at the moment, seems to work so far..
Tried installing the 64-bit on VMWare a while ago, and it didn't work, so for now I'm using the 32-bit-release :)

Just installed it, and noticed how un-userfriendly the first screen is..
I was looking a green screen for about 15 minutes, then i realised something was wrong. Pressed some random buttons, and apparently you have to move your mouse cursor to the bottom left corner to make a menu popup..
Not a good first impression so far, but once it works, it looks nice.